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To remain innocent may also be. to remain ignorant.

John Berger

Art, when it functions like this, becomes a meeting-place of the invisible, the irreducible, the enduring, guts, and honor.
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Art Become Enduring Function Gut Honor Invisible Meeting Place
I can’t tell you what art does and how it does it, but I know that often 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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Art Can Forgotten Innocent Judge Know Past Revenge Show
The extreme proposition on which Giacometti based all his mature work was that no reality… could ever be shared. This is why he believed it impossible for a work to be finished. This is why the content of any work is not the nature of the figure or head portrayed but the incomplete history of him staring at it.
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Bases Extreme Finishing Giacometti History Impossible Incomplete Portrayed Proposition Reality Share Staring
For the artist, drawing is discovery. And that is not just a slick phrase; it is quite literally true.
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Artist Discovery Drawing Literally Phrase Slick True
All weddings are similar, but every marriage is different.
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Different Marriage Similar Wedding
Nothing fortuitous happens in a child’s world. There are no accidents. Everything is connected with everything else and everything can be explained by everything else. . . . For a young child everything that happens is a necessity.
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Child Children Fortuitouus Happen Nothing World Young
The opposite of love is not to hate but to separate. If love and hate have something in common it is because, in both cases, their energy is that of bringing and holding together
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Both Case Common Hate Love Opposite Separate Something
For those who are behind the curtain, landmarks are no longer only geographic but also biographical and personal
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Behind Biographical Curtain Geographical Landmark Longer Personal
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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Anywhere Consequences Every Hour Modern People Political Politics Thousand Writing
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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Allow Boycott Consider Craven Distinct Elected Government People Pressure Tactic
Yet the first symbols were animals. What distinguished men from animals was born of their relationship with them.
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Animal Born Distinguish Men Relationship Symbol Yet
The relation between what we see and what we know is never settled. Each evening we see the sun set.
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Between Know Relation Settle
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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Communication Emotive Network Pace Permanent Propaganda Reflection Require Slogan Stifie Systematically
I use charcoal a lot. Partly because it has such a fantastic range but also because it is very easy to erase.
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Charcoal Drawing Erase Fantastic Partly Range Use White Wrase
You cant draw it for others. You can try, of course, but it doesn’t work. People obeying rules laid down my somebody else is not the same thing as respecting life. And if you want to respect life, you have to draw a line.
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Course Else Life Line Obey Other People Respect Somebody
All photographs are there to remind us of what we forget. In this – as in other ways – they are the opposite of paintings.
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Forget Opposite Other Pain Painting Photography Remind Way

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