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I wanted to write about looking at the world, so it’s more about helping people, or persuading people, to see what is around us; both the marvellous and the terrible.

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Whenever he looked he saw the labour of existence; and this labour, recognised as such, was what constituted reality for him. (On Vincent Van Gogh)
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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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Japanese art looked closely around screens; Italian Renaissance art surveyed conquered nature through the window or door-frame of a palace.
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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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The zoo cannot but disappoint. The public purpose of zoos is to offer visitors the opportunity of looking at animals.
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Drawing is a way of coming upon the connection between things, just like metaphor in poetry reconnects what has become separated.
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Without ethics man has no future. This is to say mankind without them cannot be itself.
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Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.
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Never chain your dogs together with sausages. One must accustom one’s self to be bored.
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What is significant, and is so difficult for the urban stranger to understand, is that the two statements are connected by an and not by a but.
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To live and die amongst foreigners may seem less absurd than to live persecuted or tortured by one’s fellow countrymen….
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The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich.
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Nothing in the nature around us is evil. This needs to be repeated since one of the human ways of talking oneself into inhuman acts is to cite the supposed cruelty of nature.
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The stars threaded on that line were like events threaded on a narrative. Imagining the constellations did not of course change the stars, nor did it change the black emptiness that surrounds them. What it changed was the way people read the night sky.
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The animal has secrets which, unlike the secrets of caves, mountains, seas are specifically addressed to man.
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