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A drawing is an autobiographical record of one’s discovery of an event – either seen, remembered or imagined. A ‘finished’ work is an attempt to construct an event in itself.

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Marilyn Monroe Paulo Coelho Abraham Lincoln C. S. Lewis Khalil Gibran Charlie Chaplin Gautama Buddha Isaac Newton

The camera relieves us of the burden of memory. It surveys us like God, and it surveys for us. Yet no other god has been so cynical, for the camera records in order to forget.
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Burden Camera Forget God Like Memories Photography Relieve Survey Us Yet
We never look at just one thing; we are always looking at the relation between things and ourselves.
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Between Just never One Ourselves Thing
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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Allow Artist Certain Colour Comparitively Dominate Easy Mute Together Unity
Your lips, beloved, are like a honeycomb: honey and milk are under the tongue. And the smell of your clothes is like the smell of my home.
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Beloved Clothes Home Honeycomb Like Lip Milk Smell Tongue
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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Common Common Sense Deprive Fundamental Home Ideology Ignorant Learning Part Sense
To remain innocent may also be. to remain ignorant.
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Ignorant Innocent May Remain
Deep 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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Audience Cinema Deep Individually Nature Ritual Theatre Transport Unknown
The happiness of being envied is glamour. Being envied is a solitary form of reassurance. It depends precisely upon not sharing your experience with those who envy you.
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Being Depend Envy Experience Glamourous Happiness Illusion Precisely Reassurance Share Solitary
For the artist, drawing is discovery. And that is not just a slick phrase; it is quite literally true.
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Artist Discovery Drawing Literally Phrase Slick True
To be naked is to be oneself.
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Be Naked Oneself
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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Addresses Adorable Contradiction God Image Perspective Reality Really Single Spectator Structure Unlike
Art, when it functions like this, becomes a meeting-place of the invisible, the irreducible, the enduring, guts, and honor.
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Art Become Enduring Function Gut Honor Invisible Meeting Place
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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Appearance Aware Become Certain Come Degree Degrees Energy Intense Intensity Look Scrutinizing Towards
It is not usually possible in a poem or a story to make the relationship between particular and universal fully explicit. Those who try to do so end up writing parables.
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Between Explicit Fully Make Relationship Stories Trying Universal Usually Writing
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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Actor Art Before Both Bring Cinema Compare Drama Dramatix Nature Public Right Season
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

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