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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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This determines not only most relations between men and women but also the relation of women to themselves.
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Painting is something that you need to do, if not every day, then certainly most days. It is almost like being a pianist: if you stop, you lose something.
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To live and die amongst foreigners may seem less absurd than to live persecuted or tortured by one’s fellow countrymen….
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The heart of Paris is like nothing so much as the unending interior of a house.
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A cigarette is a breathing space. It makes a parenthesis.
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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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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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Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time has become Death triumphant over all.
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A peasant becomes fond of his pig and is glad to salt away its pork.
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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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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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The contradiction in perspective was that it structured all images of reality to address a single spectator who, unlike God, could only be in one place at a time.
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Photographs bear witness to a human choice being exercised in a given situation.
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What is significant, and is so difficult for the urban stranger to understand, is that the two statements are connected by an and not by a but.
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A man’s presence suggests what he is capable of doing to you or for you.
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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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Deep in the nature of theatre is a sense of ritual. The cinema, by contrast, transports its audience individually, singly, out of the theatre towards the unknown.
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