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No painting or drawing, however naturalist, belongs to its subject in the way that a photograph does.

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The extreme proposition on which Giacometti based all his mature work was that no reality… could ever be shared. This is why he believed it impossible for a work to be finished. This is why the content of any work is not the nature of the figure or head portrayed but the incomplete history of him staring at it.
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Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.
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That we find a crystal or a poppy beautiful means that we are less alone, that we are more deeply inserted into existence than the course of a single life would lead us to believe.
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Unlike any other visual image, a photograph is not a rendering, an imitation or an interpretation of its subject, but actually a trace of it.
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A man’s presence suggests what he is capable of doing to you or for you.
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If the public photograph contributes to a memory, it is to the memory of an unknowable and total stranger.
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All photographs are there to remind us of what we forget. In this – as in other ways – they are the opposite of paintings.
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What is significant, and is so difficult for the urban stranger to understand, is that the two statements are connected by an and not by a but.
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To live and die amongst foreigners may seem less absurd than to live persecuted or tortured by one’s fellow countrymen….
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Whenever the intensity of looking reaches a certain degree, one becomes aware of an equally intense energy coming towards one through the appearance of whatever it is one is scrutinizing.
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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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The true content of a photograph is invisible, for it derives from a play, not with form, but with time.
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Compare the cinema with theatre. Both are dramatic arts. Theatre brings actors before a public and every night during the season they re-enact the same drama.
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The essence of songs is neither vocal nor cerebral but organic.
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Without ethics man has no future. This is to say mankind without them cannot be itself.
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Yet the first symbols were animals. What distinguished men from animals was born of their relationship with them.
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