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Every authentic poem contributes to the labor of poetry… to bring together what life has separated or violence has torn apart…

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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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All photographs are there to remind us of what we forget. In this – as in other ways – they are the opposite of paintings.
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The woman’s sexual passion needs to be minimized, so that the spectator may feel that he has the monopoly on such passion
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We follow songs in order to be enclosed. We find ourselves inside a message.
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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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Unlike any other visual image, a photograph is not a rendering, an imitation or an interpretation of its subject, but actually a trace of it.
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You painted a naked woman because you enjoyed looking at her, put a mirror in her hand and you called the painting “Vanity,” thus morally condemning the woman whose nakedness you had depicted for you own pleasure.
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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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Emigration, forced or chosen, across national frontiers or from village to metropolis, is the quintessential experience of our time.
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Every painted image of something is also about the absence of the real thing. All painting is about the presence of absence.
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These contradictions both hide and increase the natural ambiguity of the photographic image.
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The opposite of love is not to hate but to separate. If love and hate have something in common it is because, in both cases, their energy is that of bringing and holding together
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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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Never chain your dogs together with sausages. One must accustom one’s self to be bored.
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Every authentic poem contributes to the labor of poetry… to bring together what life has separated or violence has torn apart…
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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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