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What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time.

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Art, when it functions like this, becomes a meeting-place of the invisible, the irreducible, the enduring, guts, and honor.
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Yet nowherein a zoo can a stranger encounter the look of an animal. At the most, the animal’s gaze flickers and passes on. They look sideways. They look blindly beyond.
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There’s the artist’s intimacy and truthfulness to himself, but an equal intimacy to the Other [the one drawn].
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Advertising is not merely an assembly of competing messages; it is a language itself which is always being used to make the same general proposal
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Photographs bear witness to a human choice being exercised in a given situation.
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The relation between what we see and what we know is never settled. Each evening we see the sun set.
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For the artist, drawing is discovery. And that is not just a slick phrase; it is quite literally true.
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Matisse did neither. He clashed his colours together like cymbals and the effect was like a lullaby.
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But toemigrate is always to dismantle the centre of the world, and so to move into a lost, disoriented one of fragments.
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