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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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She is meant to imagine herself transformed by the product into an object of envy for others, an envy which will then justify her loving herself.
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Ours is the century of enforced travel of disappearances.
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The zoo cannot but disappoint.
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The strange power of art is sometimes it can show that what people have in common is more urgent than what differentiates them. It seems to me it’s something that theatre can do, but it’s rare; it’s very rare.
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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 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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Landscapes can be deceptive. Sometimes a landscape seems to be less a setting for the life of its inhabitants than a curtain behind which their struggles, achievements and accidents takes place.
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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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It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open.
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The relation between what we see and what we know is never settled. Each evening we see the sun set.
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Photographs bear witness to a human choice being exercised in a given situation.
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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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The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.
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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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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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The impulse to paint comes neither from observation nor from the soul (which is probably blind) but from an encounter: the encounter between painter and model: even if the model is a mountain or a shelf of empty medicine bottles.
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To be naked is to be oneself.
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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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The century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to them, disappear over the horizon.
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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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Emigration, forced or chosen, across national frontiers or from village to metropolis, is the quintessential experience of our time.
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What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time.
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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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I use charcoal a lot. Partly because it has such a fantastic range but also because it is very easy to erase.
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A peasant becomes fond of his pig and is glad to salt away its pork.
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Hope is a contraband passed from hand to hand and story to story.
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