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The essence of songs is neither vocal nor cerebral but organic.
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To remain innocent may also be. to remain ignorant.
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We follow songs in order to be enclosed. We find ourselves inside a message.
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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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The extreme proposition on which Giacometti based all his mature work was that no reality… could ever be shared. This is why he believed it impossible for a work to be finished. This is why the content of any work is not the nature of the figure or head portrayed but the incomplete history of him staring at it.
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Traditional Chinese art looked at the Earth from a Confucian mountain top;
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If everything that existed were continually being photographed, every photograph would become meaningless.
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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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We can become anything. That is why injustice is impossible here. There may be the accident of birth, there is no accident of death. Nothing forces us to remain what we were.
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Between the experience of living a normal life at this moment on the planet and the public narratives being offered to give a sense to that life, the empty space, the gap, is enormous.
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That we find a crystal or a poppy beautiful means that we are less alone, that we are more deeply inserted into existence than the course of a single life would lead us to believe.
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My heart born naked was swaddled in lullabies.
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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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These contradictions both hide and increase the natural ambiguity of the photographic image.
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You cant draw it for others. You can try, of course, but it doesn’t work. People obeying rules laid down my somebody else is not the same thing as respecting life. And if you want to respect life, you have to draw a line.
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Fanaticism comes from any form of chosen blindness accompanying the pursuit of a single dogma.
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