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We who draw do so not only to make something observed visible to others, but also to accompany something invisible to its incalculable destination

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The past is the one thing we are not prisoners of. We can do with the past exactly what we wish. What we can’t do is to change its consequences.
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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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The time of a cigarette is a parenthesis, and if it is shared, you are both in that parenthesis. Its like a proscenium arch for a dialogue.
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I use charcoal a lot. Partly because it has such a fantastic range but also because it is very easy to erase.
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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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Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.
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Deep in the nature of theatre is a sense of ritual. The cinema, by contrast, transports its audience individually, singly, out of the theatre towards the unknown.
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When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls.
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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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Blind Bottle Come Encounter Impulse Medicine Mountain Observation Soul
When he painted a road, the roadmakers were there in his imagination, when he painted the turned earth of a ploughed field, the gesture of the blade turning the earth was included in his own act.
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When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls.
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Writers who have neither product utopian trash.
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Neither Product Truth Utopian Writer
For the Cro-Magnons, space is a metaphysical arena of continually intermittent appearances and disappearances.
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Never again shall a single story be told as though it were the only one.
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Photographs bear witness to a human choice being exercised in a given situation.
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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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