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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 remain innocent may also be. to remain ignorant.
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The camera relieves us of the burden of memory. It surveys us like God, and it surveys for us. Yet no other god has been so cynical, for the camera records in order to forget.
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If every event which occurred could be given a name, there would be no need for stories.
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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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If the public photograph contributes to a memory, it is to the memory of an unknowable and total stranger.
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My heart born naked was swaddled in lullabies.
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The publicity image steals her love of herself as she is, and offers it back to her for the price of the product.
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What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time.
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Inspirational Light Material Photography Primary
The existence of pleasure is the first mystery. The existence of pain has prompted far more philosophical speculation.
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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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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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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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Never chain your dogs together with sausages. One must accustom one’s self to be bored.
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Accustom Blessing Bored Chain Dog Sausage Self
For me, drawing is a lot to do with taking out, with returning to the white of the paper.
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The opposite of love is not to hate but to separate. If love and hate have something in common it is because, in both cases, their energy is that of bringing and holding together
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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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Tracing an imaginary line between a cluster of stars gave them an image and an identity.
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Fanaticism comes from any form of chosen blindness accompanying the pursuit of a single dogma.
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That we find a crystal or a poppy beautiful means that we are less alone, that we are more deeply inserted into existence than the course of a single life would lead us to believe.
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Between the experience of living a normal life at this moment on the planet and the public narratives being offered to give a sense to that life, the empty space, the gap, is enormous.
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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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Ever since the Greek tragedies, artists have, from time to time, asked themselves how they might influence ongoing political events.
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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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Compassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural.
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There’s the artist’s intimacy and truthfulness to himself, but an equal intimacy to the Other [the one drawn].
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Never again shall a single story be told as though it were the only one.
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The extreme proposition on which Giacometti based all his mature work was that no reality… could ever be shared. This is why he believed it impossible for a work to be finished. This is why the content of any work is not the nature of the figure or head portrayed but the incomplete history of him staring at it.
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