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We only see what we look at. To look is an act of choice.

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Every painted image of something is also about the absence of the real thing. All painting is about the presence of absence.
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A man’s presence suggests what he is capable of doing to you or for you.
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Art, when it functions like this, becomes a meeting-place of the invisible, the irreducible, the enduring, guts, and honor.
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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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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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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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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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Oil painting did to appearances what capital did to social relations. It reduced everything to the equality of objects.
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