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What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time.

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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 read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls.
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Every painted image of something is also about the absence of the real thing. All painting is about the presence of absence.
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These contradictions both hide and increase the natural ambiguity of the photographic image.
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Later alone it wore poems for clothes. Like a shirt I carried on my back the poetry I had read. So I lived for half a century until wordlessly we met. From my shirt on the back of the chair I learn tonight how many years of learning by heart I waited for you.
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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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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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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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For the artist, drawing is discovery. And that is not just a slick phrase; it is quite literally true.
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We who draw do so not only to make something observed visible to others, but also to accompany something invisible to its incalculable destination
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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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Without ethics man has no future. This is to say mankind without them cannot be itself.
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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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Ever since the Greek tragedies, artists have, from time to time, asked themselves how they might influence ongoing political events.
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I can’t tell you what art does and how it does it, but I know that often art has judged the judges, pleaded revenge to the innocent and shown to the future what the past suffered, so that it has never been forgotten.
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I use charcoal a lot. Partly because it has such a fantastic range but also because it is very easy to erase.
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