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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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Writers who have neither product utopian trash.
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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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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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Everything became exchangeable because everything became a commodity.
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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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Allow Artist Certain Colour Comparitively Dominate Easy Mute Together Unity
To be naked is to be oneself.
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Post-modernism has cut off the present from all futures. The daily media add to this by cutting off the past. Which means that critical opinion is often orphaned in the present.
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The unsung, impersonal world remains outside, on the other surface of a placenta. All songs, even when their content or rendering is strongly masculine, operate maternally.
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This determines not only most relations between men and women but also the relation of women to themselves.
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When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls.
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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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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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