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Photography, because it stops the flow of life, is always flirting with death.

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A man’s presence suggests what he is capable of doing to you or for you.
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Capable Contrast Done Men Presence Suggest You
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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Always Centre Dismantle Emigrate Fragment Lost Move World
For those who are behind the curtain, landmarks are no longer only geographic but also biographical and personal
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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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Japanese art looked closely around screens; Italian Renaissance art surveyed conquered nature through the window or door-frame of a palace.
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History always constitutes the relation between a present and its past. Consequently fear of the present leads to mystification of the past
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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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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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We can become anything. That is why injustice is impossible here. There may be the accident of birth, there is no accident of death. Nothing forces us to remain what we were.
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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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You painted a naked woman because you enjoyed looking at her, put a mirror in her hand and you called the painting “Vanity,” thus morally condemning the woman whose nakedness you had depicted for you own pleasure.
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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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The century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to them, disappear over the horizon.
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It was more than that. It was the period in which we suffered more total losses than in all the rest of our life put together.
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Traditional Chinese art looked at the Earth from a Confucian mountain top;
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