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Hope is a contraband passed from hand to hand and story to story.

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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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My heart born naked was swaddled in lullabies.
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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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Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion.
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There’s the artist’s intimacy and truthfulness to himself, but an equal intimacy to the Other [the one drawn].
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The surveyor of woman in herself is male: the surveyed female. Thus she turns herself into an object – and most particularly an object of vision: a sight.
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Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.
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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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(The sight of it as an object stimulates the use of it as an object.) Nakedness reveals itself. Nudity is placed on display. To be naked is to be without disguises.
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To remain innocent may also be. to remain ignorant.
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Every authentic poem contributes to the labor of poetry… to bring together what life has separated or violence has torn apart…
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For the artist, drawing is discovery. And that is not just a slick phrase; it is quite literally true.
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These contradictions both hide and increase the natural ambiguity of the photographic image.
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It is not an art of the princes or the bourgeoisie. It is popular and vagrant. In the sky of the cinema people learn what they might have been and discover what belongs to them apart from their single lives.
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Tracing an imaginary line between a cluster of stars gave them an image and an identity.
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The zoo cannot but disappoint.
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