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Photographs bear witness to a human choice being exercised in a given situation.

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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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It is comparatively easy to achieve a certain unity in a picture by allowing one colour to dominate, or by muting all the colours.
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No painting or drawing, however naturalist, belongs to its subject in the way that a photograph does.
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A cigarette is a breathing space. It makes a parenthesis.
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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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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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(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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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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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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For those who are behind the curtain, landmarks are no longer only geographic but also biographical and personal
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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 stars threaded on that line were like events threaded on a narrative. Imagining the constellations did not of course change the stars, nor did it change the black emptiness that surrounds them. What it changed was the way people read the night sky.
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It is not an art of the princes or the bourgeoisie. It is popular and vagrant. In the sky of the cinema people learn what they might have been and discover what belongs to them apart from their single lives.
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Never again shall a single story be told as though it were the only one.
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Hair is associated with sexual power. With passion.
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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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