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Hope is a contraband passed from hand to hand and story to story.

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When we suffer anguish we return to early childhood because that is the period in which we first learnt to suffer the experience of total loss.
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The strange power of art is sometimes it can show that what people have in common is more urgent than what differentiates them. It seems to me it’s something that theatre can do, but it’s rare; it’s very rare.
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The spectator-buyer is meant to envy herself as she will become if she buys the product.
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What is to happen next will take place within the four walls of the story. And this is possible because the story’s voice makes everything its own.
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We can become anything. That is why injustice is impossible here. There may be the accident of birth, there is no accident of death. Nothing forces us to remain what we were.
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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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The past is the one thing we are not prisoners of. We can do with the past exactly what we wish. What we can’t do is to change its consequences.
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Traditional Chinese art looked at the Earth from a Confucian mountain top;
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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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There’s the artist’s intimacy and truthfulness to himself, but an equal intimacy to the Other [the one drawn].
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I wanted to write about looking at the world, so it’s more about helping people, or persuading people, to see what is around us; both the marvellous and the terrible.
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[O]ften art has judged the judges, pleaded revenge to the innocent and shown to the future what the past suffered, so that it has never been forgotten.
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The animal has secrets which, unlike the secrets of caves, mountains, seas are specifically addressed to man.
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Propaganda requires a permanent network of communication so that it can systematically stifle reflection with emotive or utopian slogans. Its pace is usually fast.
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To be naked is to be oneself.
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Painting is something that you need to do, if not every day, then certainly most days. It is almost like being a pianist: if you stop, you lose something.
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