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We can become anything. That is why injustice is impossible here. There may be the accident of birth, there is no accident of death. Nothing forces us to remain what we were.

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This was once achieved by extensive deprivation. Today in the developed countries it is being achieved by imposing a false standard of what is and what is not desirable.
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Ours is the century of enforced travel of disappearances.
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A cigarette is a breathing space. It makes a parenthesis.
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The power of the glamorous resides in their supposed happiness: the power of the bureaucrat in his supposed authority.
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Yet the first symbols were animals. What distinguished men from animals was born of their relationship with them.
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Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak.
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Common-sense is part of the home-made ideology of those who have been deprived of fundamental learning, of those who have been kept ignorant.
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Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity.
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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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The opposite of love is not to hate but to separate. If love and hate have something in common it is because, in both cases, their energy is that of bringing and holding together
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We follow songs in order to be enclosed. We find ourselves inside a message.
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The human imagination… has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist practice or philosophy.
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Capitalism survives by forcing the majority, whom it exploits, to define their own interests as narrowly as possible.
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At times failure is very necessary for the artist. It reminds him that failure is not the ultimate disaster. And this reminder liberates him from the mean fussing of perfectionism.
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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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Every authentic poem contributes to the labor of poetry… to bring together what life has separated or violence has torn apart…
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The century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to them, disappear over the horizon.
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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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You painted a naked woman because you enjoyed looking at her, put a mirror in her hand and you called the painting “Vanity,” thus morally condemning the woman whose nakedness you had depicted for you own pleasure.
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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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Picasso drawings are like that… the Rembrandts are like that. The artist who most often did that was Van Gogh.
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Buildings become furniture, courtyards become carpets and arrases, the streets are like galleries, the boulevards conservatories. It is a house, one or two centuries old, rich, bourgeois, distinguished. The only way of going out, or shutting the door behind you, is to leave the centre.
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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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For me, drawing is a lot to do with taking out, with returning to the white of the paper.
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