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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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Photographs bear witness to a human choice being exercised in a given situation.
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Every authentic poem contributes to the labour of poetry… to bring together what life has separated or violence has torn apart.
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It is comparatively easy to achieve a certain unity in a picture by allowing one colour to dominate, or by muting all the colours.
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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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This determines not only most relations between men and women but also the relation of women to themselves.
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But toemigrate is always to dismantle the centre of the world, and so to move into a lost, disoriented one of fragments.
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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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Picasso drawings are like that… the Rembrandts are like that. The artist who most often did that was Van Gogh.
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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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Your lips, beloved, are like a honeycomb: honey and milk are under the tongue. And the smell of your clothes is like the smell of my home.
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Capitalism survives by forcing the majority, whom it exploits, to define their own interests as narrowly as possible.
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No painting or drawing, however naturalist, belongs to its subject in the way that a photograph does.
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Matisse did neither. He clashed his colours together like cymbals and the effect was like a lullaby.
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The zoo cannot but disappoint.
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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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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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