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It is seeing which establishes our place in the surrounding world; we explain that world with words, but words can never undo the fact that we are surrounded by it

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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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The essence of songs is neither vocal nor cerebral but organic.
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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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Never chain your dogs together with sausages. One must accustom one’s self to be bored.
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Pleasure and pain need to be considered together; they are inseparable. Yet the space filled by each is perhaps different. Pleasure, defined as a sense of gratification, is essential for nature
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[O]ften art has judged the judges, pleaded revenge to the innocent and shown to the future what the past suffered, so that it has never been forgotten.
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It can happen that a book, unlike its authors, grows younger as the years pass.
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It is not an art of the princes or the bourgeoisie. It is popular and vagrant. In the sky of the cinema people learn what they might have been and discover what belongs to them apart from their single lives.
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This was once achieved by extensive deprivation. Today in the developed countries it is being achieved by imposing a false standard of what is and what is not desirable.
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What is saved in the cinema when it achieves art is a spontaneous continuity with all mankind.
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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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We follow songs in order to be enclosed. We find ourselves inside a message.
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All weddings are similar, but every marriage is different.
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When we suffer anguish we return to early childhood because that is the period in which we first learnt to suffer the experience of total loss.
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To be naked is to be oneself.
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