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To be naked is to be oneself. To be nude is to be seen naked by others and yet not recognized for oneself. A naked body has to be seen as an object in order to become a nude.

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Every authentic poem contributes to the labour of poetry… to bring together what life has separated or violence has torn apart.
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Whenever the intensity of looking reaches a certain degree, one becomes aware of an equally intense energy coming towards one through the appearance of whatever it is one is scrutinizing.
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Without ethics man has no future. This is to say mankind without them cannot be itself.
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The animal has secrets which, unlike the secrets of caves, mountains, seas are specifically addressed to man.
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It is comparatively easy to achieve a certain unity in a picture by allowing one colour to dominate, or by muting all the colours.
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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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The strange power of art is sometimes it can show that what people have in common is more urgent than what differentiates them. It seems to me it’s something that theatre can do, but it’s rare; it’s very rare.
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The zoo cannot but disappoint.
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