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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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As Nelson Mandela has pointed out, boycott is not a principle, it is a tactic depending upon circumstances.
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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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A drawing is an autobiographical record of one’s discovery of an event – either seen, remembered or imagined. A ‘finished’ work is an attempt to construct an event in itself.
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If the public photograph contributes to a memory, it is to the memory of an unknowable and total stranger.
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My heart born naked was swaddled in lullabies.
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All weddings are similar, but every marriage is different.
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The heart of Paris is like nothing so much as the unending interior of a house.
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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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Every authentic poem contributes to the labor of poetry… to bring together what life has separated or violence has torn apart…
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The impulse to paint comes neither from observation nor from the soul (which is probably blind) but from an encounter: the encounter between painter and model: even if the model is a mountain or a shelf of empty medicine bottles.
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Protest and anger practically always derives from hope, and the shouting out against injustice is always in the hope of those injustices being somewhat corrected and a little more justice established.
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To be naked is to be oneself. To be nude is to be seen naked by others and yet not recognized for oneself. A naked body has to be seen as an object in order to become a nude.
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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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We only see what we look at. To look is an act of choice.
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The spectator-buyer is meant to envy herself as she will become if she buys the product.
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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.
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