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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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We who draw do so not only to make something observed visible to others, but also to accompany something invisible to its incalculable destination
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Calculate Destination Draws Invisible Make Observed Something Visible
Yet the first symbols were animals. What distinguished men from animals was born of their relationship with them.
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Animal Born Distinguish Men Relationship Symbol Yet
What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time.
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Propaganda requires a permanent network of communication so that it can systematically stifle reflection with emotive or utopian slogans. Its pace is usually fast.
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In the average European oil painting of the nude the principal protagonist is never painted. He is the spectator in front of the picture and he is presumed to be a man.
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Average Country Men never Painting Presume Principal Protagonist Rude Spectator
Oil painting did to appearances what capital did to social relations. It reduced everything to the equality of objects.
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A photograph is a meeting place where the interests of the photographer, the photographed, the viewer and those who are using the photograph are often contradictory.
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The envied are like bureaucrats; the more impersonal they are, the greater the illusion (for themselves and for others) of their power.
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Bureaucrat Envied Envy Greater Illusion Power Themselves
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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Change Constellation Event Imagining Night People Sky Surround Threaded
Ever since the Greek tragedies, artists have, from time to time, asked themselves how they might influence ongoing political events.
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The essence of songs is neither vocal nor cerebral but organic.
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Celebrate Essence Order Organic Song Vocal
It was more than that. It was the period in which we suffered more total losses than in all the rest of our life put together.
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Life Loss More Period Rest Suffer Together
The camera relieves us of the burden of memory.
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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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Buy Buyer Envy Herself Imagine Meant Product Spectator
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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Do you know the legend about cicadas? They say they are the souls of poets who cannot keep quiet because, when they were alive, they never wrote the poems they wanted to.
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