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No painting or drawing, however naturalist, belongs to its subject in the way that a photograph does.

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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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It can happen that a book, unlike its authors, grows younger as the years pass.
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The camera relieves us of the burden of memory. It surveys us like God, and it surveys for us. Yet no other god has been so cynical, for the camera records in order to forget.
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You are observed with interest but you do not observe with interest – if you do, you will become less enviable. In this respect the envied are like bureaucrats; the more impersonal they are, the greater the illusion (for themselves and for others) of their power.
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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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These contradictions both hide and increase the natural ambiguity of the photographic image.
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Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak.
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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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The zoo cannot but disappoint. The public purpose of zoos is to offer visitors the opportunity of looking at animals.
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Emigration, forced or chosen, across national frontiers or from village to metropolis, is the quintessential experience of our time.
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What is to happen next will take place within the four walls of the story. And this is possible because the story’s voice makes everything its own.
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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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What any true painting touches is an absence – an absence of which without the painting, we might be unaware. And that would be our loss.
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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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The spectator-buyer is meant to envy herself as she will become if she buys the product.
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The essence of songs is neither vocal nor cerebral but organic.
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