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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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What do drawings mean to me? I really don’t know. The activity absorbs me. I forget everything else in a way that I don’t think happens with any other activity.
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No painting or drawing, however naturalist, belongs to its subject in the way that a photograph does.
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Nothing fortuitous happens in a child’s world. There are no accidents. Everything is connected with everything else and everything can be explained by everything else. . . . For a young child everything that happens is a necessity.
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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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A photograph is a result of the photographer’s decision that it is worth recording that this particular event or this particular object has been seen. If everything that existed were continually being photographed, every photograph would become meaningless.
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Never again shall a single story be told as though it were the only one.
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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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The relation between what we see and what we know is never settled. Each evening we see the sun set.
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The true content of a photograph is invisible, for it derives from a play, not with form, but with time.
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To remain innocent may also be. to remain ignorant.
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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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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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In the modern world, in which thousands of people are dying every hour as a consequence of politics, no writing anywhere can begin to be credible unless it is informed by political awareness and principles.
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