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It is not an art of the princes or the bourgeoisie. It is popular and vagrant. In the sky of the cinema people learn what they might have been and discover what belongs to them apart from their single lives.

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A drawing is essentially a private work, related only to the artist’s own needs; a ‘finished’ statue or canvas is essentially a public, presented work – related far more directly to the demands of communication.
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Every authentic poem contributes to the labor of poetry… to bring together what life has separated or violence has torn apart…
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The publicity image steals her love of herself as she is, and offers it back to her for the price of the product.
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Ever since the Greek tragedies, artists have, from time to time, asked themselves how they might influence ongoing political events.
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She is meant to imagine herself transformed by the product into an object of envy for others, an envy which will then justify her loving herself.
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When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls.
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Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.
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Compassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural.
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The zoo cannot but disappoint. The public purpose of zoos is to offer visitors the opportunity of looking at animals.
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It is comparatively easy to achieve a certain unity in a picture by allowing one colour to dominate, or by muting all the colours.
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Emigration, forced or chosen, across national frontiers or from village to metropolis, is the quintessential experience of our time.
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If everything that existed were continually being photographed, every photograph would become meaningless.
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To be naked is to be oneself.
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The power of the glamorous resides in their supposed happiness: the power of the bureaucrat in his supposed authority.
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The heart of Paris is like nothing so much as the unending interior of a house.
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(The sight of it as an object stimulates the use of it as an object.) Nakedness reveals itself. Nudity is placed on display. To be naked is to be without disguises.
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