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There’s the artist’s intimacy and truthfulness to himself, but an equal intimacy to the Other [the one drawn].

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For me, drawing is a lot to do with taking out, with returning to the white of the paper.
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Ethics determine choices and actions and suggest difficult priorities.
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The century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to them, disappear over the horizon.
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It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open.
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Hair is associated with sexual power. With passion.
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If the public photograph contributes to a memory, it is to the memory of an unknowable and total stranger.
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Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion.
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Nakedness reveals itself. Nudity is placed on display. The nude is condemned to never being naked. Nudity is a form of dress.
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To remain innocent may also be. to remain ignorant.
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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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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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Photography, because it stops the flow of life, is always flirting with death.
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(The sight of it as an object stimulates the use of it as an object.) Nakedness reveals itself. Nudity is placed on display. To be naked is to be without disguises.
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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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Picasso drawings are like that… the Rembrandts are like that. The artist who most often did that was Van Gogh.
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You cant draw it for others. You can try, of course, but it doesn’t work. People obeying rules laid down my somebody else is not the same thing as respecting life. And if you want to respect life, you have to draw a line.
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To be naked is to be oneself. To be nude is to be seen naked by others and yet not recognised for oneself.
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When he painted a road, the roadmakers were there in his imagination, when he painted the turned earth of a ploughed field, the gesture of the blade turning the earth was included in his own act.
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The opposite of love is not to hate but to separate. If love and hate have something in common it is because, in both cases, their energy is that of bringing and holding together
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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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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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As Nelson Mandela has pointed out, boycott is not a principle, it is a tactic depending upon circumstances.
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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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Japanese art looked closely around screens; Italian Renaissance art surveyed conquered nature through the window or door-frame of a palace.
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Everything became exchangeable because everything became a commodity.
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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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