"Cities resemble each other if we consider them as the theater of modern life and of anonymity. Specificities become a subtle matter. Anonymity is not a negative thing. More than a loss of individuality, it is a form of the general, of the common. It contributes to the melancholy of the flâneur, but this does not prevent us from seeing either beauty or sensuality."Beat Streuli, interviewed by Jean François Chevrier, in Lieux communs, figures singulières catalogue, City of Paris Museum of Modern Art, Paris, 1991
