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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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All creation is in the art of seeing.
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All Creation Art See
There’s the artist’s intimacy and truthfulness to himself, but an equal intimacy to the Other [the one drawn].
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Ever since the Greek tragedies, artists have, from time to time, asked themselves how they might influence ongoing political events.
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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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One can say of language that it is potentially the only human home, the only dwelling place that cannot be hostile to man.
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The zoo cannot but disappoint.
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Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.
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The camera relieves us of the burden of memory.
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What any true painting touches is an absence – an absence of which without the painting, we might be unaware. And that would be our loss.
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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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If the public photograph contributes to a memory, it is to the memory of an unknowable and total stranger.
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Between the experience of living a normal life at this moment on the planet and the public narratives being offered to give a sense to that life, the empty space, the gap, is enormous.
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Drawing is a way of coming upon the connection between things, just like metaphor in poetry reconnects what has become separated.
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A cigarette is a breathing space. It makes a parenthesis.
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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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The spectator-buyer is meant to envy herself as she will become if she buys the product.
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To be naked is to be oneself.
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The heart of Paris is like nothing so much as the unending interior of a house.
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The envied are like bureaucrats; the more impersonal they are, the greater the illusion (for themselves and for others) of their power.
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A photograph is a result of the photographer’s decision that it is worth recording that this particular event or this particular object has been seen. If everything that existed were continually being photographed, every photograph would become meaningless.
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All publicity works upon anxiety.
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What distinguished man from animals was the human capacity for symbolic thought, the capacity which was inseparable from the development of language in which words were not mere signals, but signifiers of something other than themselves.
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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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One of the fundamental reasons why so many doctors become cynical and disillusioned is precisely because, when the abstract idealism has worn thin, they are uncertain about the value of the actual lives of the patients they are treating.
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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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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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It is seeing which establishes our place in the surrounding world; we explain that world with words, but words can never undo the fact that we are surrounded by it
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