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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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Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time has become Death triumphant over all.
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But toemigrate is always to dismantle the centre of the world, and so to move into a lost, disoriented one of fragments.
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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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A peasant becomes fond of his pig and is glad to salt away its pork.
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Yet nowherein a zoo can a stranger encounter the look of an animal. At the most, the animal’s gaze flickers and passes on. They look sideways. They look blindly beyond.
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The camera relieves us of the burden of memory.
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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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To be naked is to be oneself. To be nude is to be seen naked by others and yet not recognised for oneself.
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The relation between what we see and what we know is never settled. Each evening we see the sun set.
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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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The existence of pleasure is the first mystery. The existence of pain has prompted far more philosophical speculation.
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Matisse did neither. He clashed his colours together like cymbals and the effect was like a lullaby.
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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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Words are so often used in the opposite sense, as a screen of diversion. It’s the struggle towards truthfulness which is the same whether one is writing a poem, a novel or an argument.
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Picasso drawings are like that… the Rembrandts are like that. The artist who most often did that was Van Gogh.
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We never look at just one thing; we are always looking at the relation between things and ourselves.
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