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

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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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Painting is something that you need to do, if not every day, then certainly most days. It is almost like being a pianist: if you stop, you lose something.
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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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The happiness of being envied is glamour. Being envied is a solitary form of reassurance. It depends precisely upon not sharing your experience with those who envy you.
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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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A cigarette is a breathing space. It makes a parenthesis.
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The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.
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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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Without ethics man has no future. This is to say mankind without them cannot be itself.
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Traditional Chinese art looked at the Earth from a Confucian mountain top;
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Pleasure and pain need to be considered together; they are inseparable. Yet the space filled by each is perhaps different. Pleasure, defined as a sense of gratification, is essential for nature
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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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Fanaticism comes from any form of chosen blindness accompanying the pursuit of a single dogma.
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Oil painting did to appearances what capital did to social relations. It reduced everything to the equality of objects.
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