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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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A cigarette is a breathing space. It makes a parenthesis.
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Nakedness reveals itself. Nudity is placed on display. The nude is condemned to never being naked. Nudity is a form of dress.
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The stars threaded on that line were like events threaded on a narrative. Imagining the constellations did not of course change the stars, nor did it change the black emptiness that surrounds them. What it changed was the way people read the night sky.
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No painting or drawing, however naturalist, belongs to its subject in the way that a photograph does.
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If the public photograph contributes to a memory, it is to the memory of an unknowable and total stranger.
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In the modern world, in which thousands of people are dying every hour as a consequence of politics, no writing anywhere can begin to be credible unless it is informed by political awareness and principles.
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We only see what we look at. To look is an act of choice.
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Whenever he looked he saw the labour of existence; and this labour, recognised as such, was what constituted reality for him. (On Vincent Van Gogh)
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Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.
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Compassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural.
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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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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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Ethics determine choices and actions and suggest difficult priorities.
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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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Ever since the Greek tragedies, artists have, from time to time, asked themselves how they might influence ongoing political events.
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I use charcoal a lot. Partly because it has such a fantastic range but also because it is very easy to erase.
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To be naked is to be oneself. To be nude is to be seen naked by others and yet not recognised for oneself.
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In the average European oil painting of the nude the principal protagonist is never painted. He is the spectator in front of the picture and he is presumed to be a man.
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What any true painting touches is an absence – an absence of which without the painting, we might be unaware. And that would be our loss.
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Later alone it wore poems for clothes. Like a shirt I carried on my back the poetry I had read. So I lived for half a century until wordlessly we met. From my shirt on the back of the chair I learn tonight how many years of learning by heart I waited for you.
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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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Poetry can repair no loss, but it defies the space which separates. And it does this by its continual labor of reassembling what has been scattered.
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If everything that existed were continually being photographed, every photograph would become meaningless.
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Capitalism survives by forcing the majority, whom it exploits, to define their own interests as narrowly as possible.
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What distinguished man from animals was the human capacity for symbolic thought, the capacity which was inseparable from the development of language in which words were not mere signals, but signifiers of something other than themselves.
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