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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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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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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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When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls.
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The existence of pleasure is the first mystery. The existence of pain has prompted far more philosophical speculation.
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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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No painting or drawing, however naturalist, belongs to its subject in the way that a photograph does.
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What distinguished man from animals was the human capacity for symbolic thought, the capacity which was inseparable from the development of language in which words were not mere signals, but signifiers of something other than themselves.
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Never again shall a single story be told as though it were the only one.
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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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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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A peasant becomes fond of his pig and is glad to salt away its pork.
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The happiness of being envied is glamour. Being envied is a solitary form of reassurance. It depends precisely upon not sharing your experience with those who envy you.
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This is not because they are callous or personally inhuman: it is because they live in and accept a society which is incapable of knowing what a human life is worth.
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It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open.
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All creation is in the art of seeing.
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