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.
JOHN BERGERThe 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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History always constitutes the relation between a present and its past. Consequently fear of the present leads to mystification of the past
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What any true painting touches is an absence – an absence of which without the painting, we might be unaware. And that would be our loss.
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For the artist, drawing is discovery. And that is not just a slick phrase; it is quite literally true.
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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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For me, drawing is a lot to do with taking out, with returning to the white of the paper.
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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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Ever since the Greek tragedies, artists have, from time to time, asked themselves how they might influence ongoing political events.
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Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity.
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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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The true content of a photograph is invisible, for it derives from a play, not with form, but with time.
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(The sight of it as an object stimulates the use of it as an object.) Nakedness reveals itself. Nudity is placed on display. To be naked is to be without disguises.
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You painted a naked woman because you enjoyed looking at her, put a mirror in her hand and you called the painting “Vanity,” thus morally condemning the woman whose nakedness you had depicted for you own pleasure.
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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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The zoo cannot but disappoint. The public purpose of zoos is to offer visitors the opportunity of looking at animals.
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The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.
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