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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 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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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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It is not usually possible in a poem or a story to make the relationship between particular and universal fully explicit. Those who try to do so end up writing parables.
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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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Compassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural.
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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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Writers who have neither product utopian trash.
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Paintings record what the painter remembers. Because each one of us forgets different things, a photo more than a painting may change its meaning according to who is looking at it.
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For the Cro-Magnons, space is a metaphysical arena of continually intermittent appearances and disappearances.
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If everything that existed were continually being photographed, every photograph would become meaningless.
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Compare the cinema with theatre. Both are dramatic arts. Theatre brings actors before a public and every night during the season they re-enact the same drama.
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Whenever he looked he saw the labour of existence; and this labour, recognised as such, was what constituted reality for him. (On Vincent Van Gogh)
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My heart born naked was swaddled in lullabies.
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When he painted a road, the roadmakers were there in his imagination, when he painted the turned earth of a ploughed field, the gesture of the blade turning the earth was included in his own act.
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You cant draw it for others. You can try, of course, but it doesn’t work. People obeying rules laid down my somebody else is not the same thing as respecting life. And if you want to respect life, you have to draw a line.
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The essence of songs is neither vocal nor cerebral but organic.
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