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You painted a naked woman because you enjoyed looking at her, put a mirror in her hand and you called the painting “Vanity,” thus morally condemning the woman whose nakedness you had depicted for you own pleasure.
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Traditional Chinese art looked at the Earth from a Confucian mountain top;
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The relation between what we see and what we know is never settled. Each evening we see the sun set.
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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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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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Whenever the intensity of looking reaches a certain degree, one becomes aware of an equally intense energy coming towards one through the appearance of whatever it is one is scrutinizing.
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Matisse did neither. He clashed his colours together like cymbals and the effect was like a lullaby.
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A photograph is a result of the photographer’s decision that it is worth recording that this particular event or this particular object has been seen. If everything that existed were continually being photographed, every photograph would become meaningless.
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Post-modernism has cut off the present from all futures. The daily media add to this by cutting off the past. Which means that critical opinion is often orphaned in the present.
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Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time has become Death triumphant over all.
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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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The century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to them, disappear over the horizon.
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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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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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If everything that existed were continually being photographed, every photograph would become meaningless.
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