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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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The camera relieves us of the burden of memory.
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What is to happen next will take place within the four walls of the story. And this is possible because the story’s voice makes everything its own.
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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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(The sight of it as an object stimulates the use of it as an object.) Nakedness reveals itself. Nudity is placed on display. To be naked is to be without disguises.
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What is saved in the cinema when it achieves art is a spontaneous continuity with all mankind.
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We only see what we look at. To look is an act of choice.
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Never chain your dogs together with sausages. One must accustom one’s self to be bored.
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Traditional Chinese art looked at the Earth from a Confucian mountain top;
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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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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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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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By contrast, a woman’s presence… defines what can and cannot be done to her.
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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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My heart born naked was swaddled in lullabies.
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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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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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