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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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A man’s presence suggests what he is capable of doing to you or for you.
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The century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to them, disappear over the horizon.
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Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.
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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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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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The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich.
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Nothing in the nature around us is evil. This needs to be repeated since one of the human ways of talking oneself into inhuman acts is to cite the supposed cruelty of nature.
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The zoo cannot but disappoint.
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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 power of the glamorous resides in their supposed happiness: the power of the bureaucrat in his supposed authority.
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Common-sense is part of the home-made ideology of those who have been deprived of fundamental learning, of those who have been kept ignorant.
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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 sight of it as an object stimulates the use of it as an object.) Nakedness reveals itself. Nudity is placed on display. To be naked is to be without disguises.
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She is meant to imagine herself transformed by the product into an object of envy for others, an envy which will then justify her loving herself.
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Landscapes can be deceptive. Sometimes a landscape seems to be less a setting for the life of its inhabitants than a curtain behind which their struggles, achievements and accidents takes place.
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By contrast, a woman’s presence… defines what can and cannot be done to her.
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Without ethics man has no future. This is to say mankind without them cannot be 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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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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We only see what we look at. To look is an act of choice.
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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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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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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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The surveyor of woman in herself is male: the surveyed female. Thus she turns herself into an object – and most particularly an object of vision: a sight.
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You can plan events, but if they go according to your plan they are not events.
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You are observed with interest but you do not observe with interest – if you do, you will become less enviable. In this respect 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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