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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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The time of a cigarette is a parenthesis, and if it is shared, you are both in that parenthesis. Its like a proscenium arch for a dialogue.
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What distinguished man from animals was the human capacity for symbolic thought, the capacity which was inseparable from the development of language in which words were not mere signals, but signifiers of something other than themselves.
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A photograph is a meeting place where the interests of the photographer, the photographed, the viewer and those who are using the photograph are often contradictory.
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A photograph is a result of the photographer’s decision that it is worth recording that this particular event or this particular object has been seen. If everything that existed were continually being photographed, every photograph would become meaningless.
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Matisse did neither. He clashed his colours together like cymbals and the effect was like a lullaby.
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By contrast, a woman’s presence… defines what can and cannot be done to her.
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Whenever the intensity of looking reaches a certain degree, one becomes aware of an equally intense energy coming towards one through the appearance of whatever it is one is scrutinizing.
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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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Hair is associated with sexual power. With passion.
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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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It can happen that a book, unlike its authors, grows younger as the years pass.
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Oil painting did to appearances what capital did to social relations. It reduced everything to the equality of objects.
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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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Tracing an imaginary line between a cluster of stars gave them an image and an identity.
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The power of the glamorous resides in their supposed happiness: the power of the bureaucrat in his supposed authority.
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