I met Herbert Pagani a few months ago on a Radio show, and I was immediately struck by the force of his words, and the convergence of his themes with what we find in Social Sciences. He talks about loneliness, friendship, power, bondage, exile and dignity, lies and courage. With very simple, very strong images.

I wanted to know how he worked. Herbert is a man who translates, and who knows how to make resonate both what is our today and our future, disturbing but also full of hope.

It reminded me a lot of that generation of 13th and 14th century jugglers who were beginning to change the music and heralding the times that were to come. There is a whole generation of young artists like him today, who do not say what people expect, what power wants to distract the world, but attack our conformisms and our good conscience ...

Herbert is a cheerful, enthusiastic, very worried person ...

He is more concerned with integrity than with eternity, and perhaps that is the best way to achieve it.

He is a juggler today, and with his strength and excesses he heralds, among others, a new rebirth.

— Jacques Attali Extract from an interview on EUROPE 1 November 24, 1975