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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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Common-sense is part of the home-made ideology of those who have been deprived of fundamental learning, of those who have been kept ignorant.
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We follow songs in order to be enclosed. We find ourselves inside a message.
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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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Landscapes can be deceptive. Sometimes a landscape seems to be less a setting for the life of its inhabitants than a curtain behind which their struggles, achievements and accidents takes place.
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Publicity is the life of this culture – in so far as without publicity capitalism could not survive – and at the same time publicity is its dream.
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The human imagination… has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist practice or philosophy.
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It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open.
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If the public photograph contributes to a memory, it is to the memory of an unknowable and total stranger.
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Nakedness reveals itself. Nudity is placed on display. The nude is condemned to never being naked. Nudity is a form of dress.
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The zoo cannot but disappoint.
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The zoo cannot but disappoint. The public purpose of zoos is to offer visitors the opportunity of looking at animals.
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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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There’s the artist’s intimacy and truthfulness to himself, but an equal intimacy to the Other [the one drawn].
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Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity.
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Every city has a sex and an age which have nothing to do with demography. Rome is feminine. So is Odessa. London is a teenager, an urchin, and, in this, hasn’t changed since the time of Dickens. Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.
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In the average European oil painting of the nude the principal protagonist is never painted. He is the spectator in front of the picture and he is presumed to be a man.
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