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A photograph is a result of the photographer’s decision that it is worth recording that this particular event or this particular object has been seen. If everything that existed were continually being photographed, every photograph would become meaningless.

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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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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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The human imagination… has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist practice or philosophy.
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Common-sense is part of the home-made ideology of those who have been deprived of fundamental learning, of those who have been kept ignorant.
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All photographs are there to remind us of what we forget. In this – as in other ways – they are the opposite of paintings.
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Buildings become furniture, courtyards become carpets and arrases, the streets are like galleries, the boulevards conservatories. It is a house, one or two centuries old, rich, bourgeois, distinguished. The only way of going out, or shutting the door behind you, is to leave the centre.
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We only see what we look at. To look is an act of choice.
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We know that the earth is turning away from it. Yet the knowledge, the explanation, never quite fits the sight.
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As Nelson Mandela has pointed out, boycott is not a principle, it is a tactic depending upon circumstances.
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The true content of a photograph is invisible, for it derives from a play, not with form, but with time.
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