“Quality should be attributed to men, not to things.”

I don’t know what Gramsci thought about when writing this quote down in the Notebook. However, I strongly agree with this quote. Many people give qualities to an object, such as art work, sculptures, buildings, and more. I learned so many views to see this differently. People consider artists, sculptor, and architectures as people who creates high quality works. But, if people think opposite way, works with good quality is produced because it is made by people with good quality. So we could say objects are not the ones that have quality, it is the producer of that object who has the quality.

From the Gramsci Monument, I expected some kind of sculptures or statues, however, I saw wooden house-like structure. Also, it had graffiti all around the structure that holds some kind of quality. I could ask to myself, ‘why do you think these drawings have qualities?’. It is because artists who drew these drawings would have some kind of quality. So these drawings must have similar quality as the artists. Let’s think about the quote. “Quality should be attributed to men, not to things.” Well, I guess quality could be attributed to things because quality is in artists who created the “things”.

Kyusub Kim