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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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Paintings record what the painter remembers. Because each one of us forgets different things, a photo more than a painting may change its meaning according to who is looking at it.
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Nakedness reveals itself. Nudity is placed on display. The nude is condemned to never being naked. Nudity is a form of dress.
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Unlike any other visual image, a photograph is not a rendering, an imitation or an interpretation of its subject, but actually a trace of it.
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Yet the first symbols were animals. What distinguished men from animals was born of their relationship with them.
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When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls.
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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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Oil painting did to appearances what capital did to social relations. It reduced everything to the equality of objects.
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Photography, because it stops the flow of life, is always flirting with death.
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Never again shall a single story be told as though it were the only one.
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Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.
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Pleasure and pain need to be considered together; they are inseparable. Yet the space filled by each is perhaps different. Pleasure, defined as a sense of gratification, is essential for nature
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Yet nowherein a zoo can a stranger encounter the look of an animal. At the most, the animal’s gaze flickers and passes on. They look sideways. They look blindly beyond.
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The contradiction in perspective was that it structured all images of reality to address a single spectator who, unlike God, could only be in one place at a time.
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That we find a crystal or a poppy beautiful means that we are less alone, that we are more deeply inserted into existence than the course of a single life would lead us to believe.
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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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