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For the artist, drawing is discovery. And that is not just a slick phrase; it is quite literally true.

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[O]ften art has judged the judges, pleaded revenge to the innocent and shown to the future what the past suffered, so that it has never been forgotten.
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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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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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Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.
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When he painted a road, the roadmakers were there in his imagination, when he painted the turned earth of a ploughed field, the gesture of the blade turning the earth was included in his own act.
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Publicity is the life of this culture – in so far as without publicity capitalism could not survive – and at the same time publicity is its dream.
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The spectator-buyer is meant to envy herself as she will become if she buys the product.
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All publicity works upon anxiety.
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The existence of pleasure is the first mystery. The existence of pain has prompted far more philosophical speculation.
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Painting is something that you need to do, if not every day, then certainly most days. It is almost like being a pianist: if you stop, you lose something.
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What is saved in the cinema when it achieves art is a spontaneous continuity with all mankind.
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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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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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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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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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To live and die amongst foreigners may seem less absurd than to live persecuted or tortured by one’s fellow countrymen….
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