What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time.
JOHN BERGERDeep in the nature of theatre is a sense of ritual. The cinema, by contrast, transports its audience individually, singly, out of the theatre towards the unknown.
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Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.
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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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Traditional Chinese art looked at the Earth from a Confucian mountain top;
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What is saved in the cinema when it achieves art is a spontaneous continuity with all mankind.
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If every event which occurred could be given a name, there would be no need for stories.
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My heart born naked was swaddled in lullabies.
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One can say of language that it is potentially the only human home, the only dwelling place that cannot be hostile to man.
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When we suffer anguish we return to early childhood because that is the period in which we first learnt to suffer the experience of total loss.
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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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Capitalism survives by forcing the majority, whom it exploits, to define their own interests as narrowly as possible.
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Ours is the century of enforced travel of disappearances.
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For the Cro-Magnons, space is a metaphysical arena of continually intermittent appearances and disappearances.
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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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Writers who have neither product utopian trash.
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Compassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural.
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