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The existence of pleasure is the first mystery. The existence of pain has prompted far more philosophical speculation.

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The extreme proposition on which Giacometti based all his mature work was that no reality… could ever be shared. This is why he believed it impossible for a work to be finished. This is why the content of any work is not the nature of the figure or head portrayed but the incomplete history of him staring at it.
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Photographs bear witness to a human choice being exercised in a given situation.
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Photography, because it stops the flow of life, is always flirting with death.
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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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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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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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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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The true content of a photograph is invisible, for it derives from a play, not with form, but with time.
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Hair is associated with sexual power. With passion.
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What distinguished man from animals was the human capacity for symbolic thought, the capacity which was inseparable from the development of language in which words were not mere signals, but signifiers of something other than themselves.
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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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Compassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural.
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