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The relation between what we see and what we know is never settled. Each evening we see the sun set.
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Between Know Relation Settle
Ever since the Greek tragedies, artists have, from time to time, asked themselves how they might influence ongoing political events.
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These contradictions both hide and increase the natural ambiguity of the photographic image.
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In the average European oil painting of the nude the principal protagonist is never painted. He is the spectator in front of the picture and he is presumed to be a man.
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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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Between the experience of living a normal life at this moment on the planet and the public narratives being offered to give a sense to that life, the empty space, the gap, is enormous.
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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 impulse to paint comes neither from observation nor from the soul (which is probably blind) but from an encounter: the encounter between painter and model: even if the model is a mountain or a shelf of empty medicine bottles.
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Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.
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Advertising is not merely an assembly of competing messages; it is a language itself which is always being used to make the same general proposal
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Landscapes can be deceptive. Sometimes a landscape seems to be less a setting for the life of its inhabitants than a curtain behind which their struggles, achievements and accidents takes place.
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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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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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When we suffer anguish we return to early childhood because that is the period in which we first learnt to suffer the experience of total loss.
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[O]ften 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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If everything that existed were continually being photographed, every photograph would become meaningless.
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