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My heart born naked was swaddled in lullabies.
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By contrast, a woman’s presence… defines what can and cannot be done to her.
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In the average European oil painting of the nude the principal protagonist is never painted. He is the spectator in front of the picture and he is presumed to be a man.
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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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There’s the artist’s intimacy and truthfulness to himself, but an equal intimacy to the Other [the one drawn].
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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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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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To be naked is to be oneself. To be nude is to be seen naked by others and yet not recognized for oneself. A naked body has to be seen as an object in order to become a nude.
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It is not usually possible in a poem or a story to make the relationship between particular and universal fully explicit. Those who try to do so end up writing parables.
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You painted a naked woman because you enjoyed looking at her, put a mirror in her hand and you called the painting “Vanity,” thus morally condemning the woman whose nakedness you had depicted for you own pleasure.
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Every painted image of something is also about the absence of the real thing. All painting is about the presence of absence.
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The heart of Paris is like nothing so much as the unending interior of a house.
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Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.
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Traditional Chinese art looked at the Earth from a Confucian mountain top;
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To remain innocent may also be. to remain ignorant.
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