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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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The woman’s sexual passion needs to be minimized, so that the spectator may feel that he has the monopoly on such passion
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Publicity is the life of this culture – in so far as without publicity capitalism could not survive – and at the same time publicity is its dream.
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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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The past is the one thing we are not prisoners of. We can do with the past exactly what we wish. What we can’t do is to change its consequences.
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It is seeing which establishes our place in the surrounding world; we explain that world with words, but words can never undo the fact that we are surrounded by it
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Hair is associated with sexual power. With passion.
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Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.
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Picasso drawings are like that… the Rembrandts are like that. The artist who most often did that was Van Gogh.
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Post-modernism has cut off the present from all futures. The daily media add to this by cutting off the past. Which means that critical opinion is often orphaned in the present.
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The human imagination… has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist practice or philosophy.
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We know that the earth is turning away from it. Yet the knowledge, the explanation, never quite fits the sight.
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Everything in life, is a question of drawing a life, John, and you have to decide for yourself where to draw it.
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These contradictions both hide and increase the natural ambiguity of the photographic image.
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Advertising is not merely an assembly of competing messages; it is a language itself which is always being used to make the same general proposal
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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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Painting is something that you need to do, if not every day, then certainly most days. It is almost like being a pianist: if you stop, you lose something.
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