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It is not an art of the princes or the bourgeoisie. It is popular and vagrant. In the sky of the cinema people learn what they might have been and discover what belongs to them apart from their single lives.

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Art, when it functions like this, becomes a meeting-place of the invisible, the irreducible, the enduring, guts, and honor.
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A photograph is a meeting place where the interests of the photographer, the photographed, the viewer and those who are using the photograph are often contradictory.
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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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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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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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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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Everything became exchangeable because everything became a commodity.
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A drawing is essentially a private work, related only to the artist’s own needs; a ‘finished’ statue or canvas is essentially a public, presented work – related far more directly to the demands of communication.
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It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open.
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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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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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This determines not only most relations between men and women but also the relation of women to themselves.
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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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If the public photograph contributes to a memory, it is to the memory of an unknowable and total stranger.
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A man’s presence suggests what he is capable of doing to you or for you.
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For those who are behind the curtain, landmarks are no longer only geographic but also biographical and personal
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