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All creation is in the art of seeing.

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At times failure is very necessary for the artist. It reminds him that failure is not the ultimate disaster. And this reminder liberates him from the mean fussing of perfectionism.
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Whenever the intensity of looking reaches a certain degree, one becomes aware of an equally intense energy coming towards one through the appearance of whatever it is one is scrutinizing.
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The spectator-buyer is meant to envy herself as she will become if she buys the product.
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Ethics determine choices and actions and suggest difficult priorities.
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The animal has secrets which, unlike the secrets of caves, mountains, seas are specifically addressed to man.
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Those who first invented and then named the constellations were storytellers.
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The century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to them, disappear over the horizon.
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These contradictions both hide and increase the natural ambiguity of the photographic image.
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Without ethics man has no future. This is to say mankind without them cannot be itself.
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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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All creation is in the art of seeing.
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All Creation Art See
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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If everything that existed were continually being photographed, every photograph would become meaningless.
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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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Picasso drawings are like that… the Rembrandts are like that. The artist who most often did that was Van Gogh.
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What is to happen next will take place within the four walls of the story. And this is possible because the story’s voice makes everything its own.
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The strange power of art is sometimes it can show that what people have in common is more urgent than what differentiates them. It seems to me it’s something that theatre can do, but it’s rare; it’s very rare.
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Propaganda requires a permanent network of communication so that it can systematically stifle reflection with emotive or utopian slogans. Its pace is usually fast.
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Hair is associated with sexual power. With passion.
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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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To be naked is to be oneself. To be nude is to be seen naked by others and yet not recognized for oneself. A naked body has to be seen as an object in order to become a nude.
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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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(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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For those who are behind the curtain, landmarks are no longer only geographic but also biographical and personal
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The unsung, impersonal world remains outside, on the other surface of a placenta. All songs, even when their content or rendering is strongly masculine, operate maternally.
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Words are so often used in the opposite sense, as a screen of diversion. It’s the struggle towards truthfulness which is the same whether one is writing a poem, a novel or an argument.
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My heart born naked was swaddled in lullabies.
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