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For such an advanced civilization as ours to be without images that are adequate to it is as serious a defect as being without memory.

Werner Herzog
Memories, Civilization, Serious
"Werner Herzog: ‘Film Is Not the Art of Scholars, But of Illiterates’". Interview with Leticia Kentsept, www.nytimes.com. September 11, 1977.
For such an advanced civilization as ours to be without images that are adequate to it is as serious a defect as being without memory.