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You are observed with interest but you do not observe with interest – if you do, you will become less enviable. In this respect 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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What do drawings mean to me? I really don’t know. The activity absorbs me. I forget everything else in a way that I don’t think happens with any other activity.
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Everything in life, is a question of drawing a life, John, and you have to decide for yourself where to draw it.
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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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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 relation between what we see and what we know is never settled. Each evening we see the sun set.
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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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Nothing in the nature around us is evil. This needs to be repeated since one of the human ways of talking oneself into inhuman acts is to cite the supposed cruelty of nature.
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Yet the first symbols were animals. What distinguished men from animals was born of their relationship with them.
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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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All weddings are similar, but every marriage is different.
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Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion.
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Advertising is not merely an assembly of competing messages; it is a language itself which is always being used to make the same general proposal
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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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A photograph is a meeting place where the interests of the photographer, the photographed, the viewer and those who are using the photograph are often contradictory.
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Later alone it wore poems for clothes. Like a shirt I carried on my back the poetry I had read. So I lived for half a century until wordlessly we met. From my shirt on the back of the chair I learn tonight how many years of learning by heart I waited for you.
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