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Never chain your dogs together with sausages. One must accustom one’s self to be bored.
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You cant draw it for others. You can try, of course, but it doesn’t work. People obeying rules laid down my somebody else is not the same thing as respecting life. And if you want to respect life, you have to draw a line.
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Photography, because it stops the flow of life, is always flirting with death.
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The zoo cannot but disappoint.
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If every event which occurred could be given a name, there would be no need for stories.
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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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It was more than that. It was the period in which we suffered more total losses than in all the rest of our life put together.
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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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Hair is associated with sexual power. With passion.
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The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.
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Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.
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The zoo cannot but disappoint. The public purpose of zoos is to offer visitors the opportunity of looking at animals.
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Ethics determine choices and actions and suggest difficult priorities.
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The essence of songs is neither vocal nor cerebral but organic.
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The true content of a photograph is invisible, for it derives from a play, not with form, but with time.
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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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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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For me, drawing is a lot to do with taking out, with returning to the white of the paper.
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Today the discredit of words is very great.
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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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Poetry can repair no loss, but it defies the space which separates. And it does this by its continual labor of reassembling what has been scattered.
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There’s the artist’s intimacy and truthfulness to himself, but an equal intimacy to the Other [the one drawn].
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It is not usually possible in a poem or a story to make the relationship between particular and universal fully explicit. Those who try to do so end up writing parables.
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If everything that existed were continually being photographed, every photograph would become meaningless.
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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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Do you know the legend about cicadas? They say they are the souls of poets who cannot keep quiet because, when they were alive, they never wrote the poems they wanted to.
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