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The existence of pleasure is the first mystery. The existence of pain has prompted far more philosophical speculation.

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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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We follow songs in order to be enclosed. We find ourselves inside a message.
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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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The contradiction in perspective was that it structured all images of reality to address a single spectator who, unlike God, could only be in one place at a time.
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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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For the Cro-Magnons, space is a metaphysical arena of continually intermittent appearances and disappearances.
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Hope is a contraband passed from hand to hand and story to story.
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Japanese art looked closely around screens; Italian Renaissance art surveyed conquered nature through the window or door-frame of a palace.
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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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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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