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If everything that existed were continually being photographed, every photograph would become meaningless.

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A photograph is a meeting place where the interests of the photographer, the photographed, the viewer and those who are using the photograph are often contradictory.
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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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All creation is in the art of seeing.
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That we find a crystal or a poppy beautiful means that we are less alone, that we are more deeply inserted into existence than the course of a single life would lead us to believe.
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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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For the artist, drawing is discovery. And that is not just a slick phrase; it is quite literally true.
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The heart of Paris is like nothing so much as the unending interior of a house.
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We never look at just one thing; we are always looking at the relation between things and ourselves.
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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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All weddings are similar, but every marriage is different.
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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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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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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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Never chain your dogs together with sausages. One must accustom one’s self to be bored.
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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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Oil painting did to appearances what capital did to social relations. It reduced everything to the equality of objects.
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