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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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Writers who have neither product utopian trash.
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For the artist, drawing is discovery. And that is not just a slick phrase; it is quite literally true.
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The time of a cigarette is a parenthesis, and if it is shared, you are both in that parenthesis. Its like a proscenium arch for a dialogue.
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All publicity works upon anxiety.
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One of the fundamental reasons why so many doctors become cynical and disillusioned is precisely because, when the abstract idealism has worn thin, they are uncertain about the value of the actual lives of the patients they are treating.
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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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The spectator-buyer is meant to envy herself as she will become if she buys the product.
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No painting or drawing, however naturalist, belongs to its subject in the way that a photograph does.
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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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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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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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Hair is associated with sexual power. With passion.
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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 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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