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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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If everything that existed were continually being photographed, every photograph would become meaningless.
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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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The stars threaded on that line were like events threaded on a narrative. Imagining the constellations did not of course change the stars, nor did it change the black emptiness that surrounds them. What it changed was the way people read the night sky.
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Oil painting did to appearances what capital did to social relations. It reduced everything to the equality of objects.
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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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These contradictions both hide and increase the natural ambiguity of the photographic image.
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Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.
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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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Every authentic poem contributes to the labor of poetry… to bring together what life has separated or violence has torn apart…
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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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It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open.
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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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Art, when it functions like this, becomes a meeting-place of the invisible, the irreducible, the enduring, guts, and honor.
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Whenever he looked he saw the labour of existence; and this labour, recognised as such, was what constituted reality for him. (On Vincent Van Gogh)
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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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