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Art, when it functions like this, becomes a meeting-place of the invisible, the irreducible, the enduring, guts, and honor.

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Protest and anger practically always derives from hope, and the shouting out against injustice is always in the hope of those injustices being somewhat corrected and a little more justice established.
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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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Ever since the Greek tragedies, artists have, from time to time, asked themselves how they might influence ongoing political events.
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If everything that existed were continually being photographed, every photograph would become meaningless.
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Words are so often used in the opposite sense, as a screen of diversion. It’s the struggle towards truthfulness which is the same whether one is writing a poem, a novel or an argument.
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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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But toemigrate is always to dismantle the centre of the world, and so to move into a lost, disoriented one of fragments.
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A tactic which allows people, as distinct from their elected but often craven governments, to apply a certain pressure on those wielding power in what they, the boycotters, consider to be an unjust or immoral way.
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My heart born naked was swaddled in lullabies.
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For the Cro-Magnons, space is a metaphysical arena of continually intermittent appearances and disappearances.
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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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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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One can say of language that it is potentially the only human home, the only dwelling place that cannot be hostile to man.
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To be naked is to be oneself. To be nude is to be seen naked by others and yet not recognised for oneself.
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We never look at just one thing; we are always looking at the relation between things and ourselves.
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