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The century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to them, disappear over the horizon.
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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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Poetry can repair no loss, but it defies the space which separates. And it does this by its continual labor of reassembling what has been scattered.
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You painted a naked woman because you enjoyed looking at her, put a mirror in her hand and you called the painting “Vanity,” thus morally condemning the woman whose nakedness you had depicted for you own pleasure.
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Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.
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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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Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak.
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Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.
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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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The past is the one thing we are not prisoners of. We can do with the past exactly what we wish. What we can’t do is to change its consequences.
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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 creation is in the art of seeing.
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Paintings record what the painter remembers. Because each one of us forgets different things, a photo more than a painting may change its meaning according to who is looking at it.
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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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Yet the first symbols were animals. What distinguished men from animals was born of their relationship with them.
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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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Ethics determine choices and actions and suggest difficult priorities.
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If everything that existed were continually being photographed, every photograph would become meaningless.
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Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.
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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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I can’t tell you what art does and how it does it, but I know that often 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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Compare the cinema with theatre. Both are dramatic arts. Theatre brings actors before a public and every night during the season they re-enact the same drama.
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A peasant becomes fond of his pig and is glad to salt away its pork.
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Yet nowherein a zoo can a stranger encounter the look of an animal. At the most, the animal’s gaze flickers and passes on. They look sideways. They look blindly beyond.
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All weddings are similar, but every marriage is different.
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To be desired is perhaps the closest anybody in this life can reach to feeling immortal.
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