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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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We who draw do so not only to make something observed visible to others, but also to accompany something invisible to its incalculable destination
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Later alone it wore poems for clothes. Like a shirt I carried on my back the poetry I had read. So I lived for half a century until wordlessly we met. From my shirt on the back of the chair I learn tonight how many years of learning by heart I waited for you.
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Between the experience of living a normal life at this moment on the planet and the public narratives being offered to give a sense to that life, the empty space, the gap, is enormous.
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A man’s presence suggests what he is capable of doing to you or for you.
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For me, drawing is a lot to do with taking out, with returning to the white of the paper.
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The heart of Paris is like nothing so much as the unending interior of a house.
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In the modern world, in which thousands of people are dying every hour as a consequence of politics, no writing anywhere can begin to be credible unless it is informed by political awareness and principles.
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Photographs bear witness to a human choice being exercised in a given situation.
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The woman’s sexual passion needs to be minimized, so that the spectator may feel that he has the monopoly on such passion
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Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.
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The happiness of being envied is glamour. Being envied is a solitary form of reassurance. It depends precisely upon not sharing your experience with those who envy you.
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What do drawings mean to me? I really don’t know. The activity absorbs me. I forget everything else in a way that I don’t think happens with any other activity.
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If everything that existed were continually being photographed, every photograph would become meaningless.
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This determines not only most relations between men and women but also the relation of women to themselves.
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This is not because they are callous or personally inhuman: it is because they live in and accept a society which is incapable of knowing what a human life is worth.
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