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Every authentic poem contributes to the labour of poetry… to bring together what life has separated or violence has torn apart.
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Oil painting did to appearances what capital did to social relations. It reduced everything to the equality of objects.
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You are observed with interest but you do not observe with interest – if you do, you will become less enviable. In this respect 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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These contradictions both hide and increase the natural ambiguity of the photographic image.
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Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.
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Pleasure and pain need to be considered together; they are inseparable. Yet the space filled by each is perhaps different. Pleasure, defined as a sense of gratification, is essential for nature
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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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Picasso drawings are like that… the Rembrandts are like that. The artist who most often did that was Van Gogh.
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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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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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Every city has a sex and an age which have nothing to do with demography. Rome is feminine. So is Odessa. London is a teenager, an urchin, and, in this, hasn’t changed since the time of Dickens. Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.
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If everything that existed were continually being photographed, every photograph would become meaningless.
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Without ethics man has no future. This is to say mankind without them cannot be itself.
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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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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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This is not because they are callous or personally inhuman: it is because they live in and accept a society which is incapable of knowing what a human life is worth.
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