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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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A drawing is essentially a private work, related only to the artist’s own needs; a ‘finished’ statue or canvas is essentially a public, presented work – related far more directly to the demands of communication.
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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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The zoo cannot but disappoint.
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For the Cro-Magnons, space is a metaphysical arena of continually intermittent appearances and disappearances.
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What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time.
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Hope is a contraband passed from hand to hand and story to story.
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The century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to them, disappear over the horizon.
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The strange power of art is sometimes it can show that what people have in common is more urgent than what differentiates them. It seems to me it’s something that theatre can do, but it’s rare; it’s very rare.
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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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The existence of pleasure is the first mystery. The existence of pain has prompted far more philosophical speculation.
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Everything became exchangeable because everything became a commodity.
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