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Art, when it functions like this, becomes a meeting-place of the invisible, the irreducible, the enduring, guts, and honor.

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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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What is significant, and is so difficult for the urban stranger to understand, is that the two statements are connected by an and not by a but.
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Post-modernism has cut off the present from all futures. The daily media add to this by cutting off the past. Which means that critical opinion is often orphaned in the present.
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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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A tactic which allows people, as distinct from their elected but often craven governments, to apply a certain pressure on those wielding power in what they, the boycotters, consider to be an unjust or immoral way.
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Hope is a contraband passed from hand to hand and story to story.
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Capitalism survives by forcing the majority, whom it exploits, to define their own interests as narrowly as possible.
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The camera relieves us of the burden of memory.
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Protest and anger practically always derives from hope, and the shouting out against injustice is always in the hope of those injustices being somewhat corrected and a little more justice established.
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All photographs are there to remind us of what we forget. In this – as in other ways – they are the opposite of paintings.
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What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time.
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She is meant to imagine herself transformed by the product into an object of envy for others, an envy which will then justify her loving herself.
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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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This was once achieved by extensive deprivation. Today in the developed countries it is being achieved by imposing a false standard of what is and what is not desirable.
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We only see what we look at. To look is an act of choice.
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A drawing is essentially a private work, related only to the artist’s own needs; a ‘finished’ statue or canvas is essentially a public, presented work – related far more directly to the demands of communication.
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