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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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For me, drawing is a lot to do with taking out, with returning to the white of the paper.
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Compassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural.
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What distinguished man from animals was the human capacity for symbolic thought, the capacity which was inseparable from the development of language in which words were not mere signals, but signifiers of something other than themselves.
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These contradictions both hide and increase the natural ambiguity of the photographic image.
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When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls.
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The contradiction in perspective was that it structured all images of reality to address a single spectator who, unlike God, could only be in one place at a time.
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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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Traditional Chinese art looked at the Earth from a Confucian mountain top;
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Whenever the intensity of looking reaches a certain degree, one becomes aware of an equally intense energy coming towards one through the appearance of whatever it is one is scrutinizing.
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This is not because they are callous or personally inhuman: it is because they live in and accept a society which is incapable of knowing what a human life is worth.
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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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Never chain your dogs together with sausages. One must accustom one’s self to be bored.
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A photograph is a result of the photographer’s decision that it is worth recording that this particular event or this particular object has been seen. If everything that existed were continually being photographed, every photograph would become meaningless.
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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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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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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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