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The opposite of love is not to hate but to separate. If love and hate have something in common it is because, in both cases, their energy is that of bringing and holding together

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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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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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Compassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural.
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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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Ours is the century of enforced travel of disappearances.
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Compare the cinema with theatre. Both are dramatic arts. Theatre brings actors before a public and every night during the season they re-enact the same drama.
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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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If the public photograph contributes to a memory, it is to the memory of an unknowable and total stranger.
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Pleasure and pain need to be considered together; they are inseparable. Yet the space filled by each is perhaps different. Pleasure, defined as a sense of gratification, is essential for nature
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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 human imagination… has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist practice or philosophy.
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The extreme proposition on which Giacometti based all his mature work was that no reality… could ever be shared. This is why he believed it impossible for a work to be finished. This is why the content of any work is not the nature of the figure or head portrayed but the incomplete history of him staring at it.
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It was more than that. It was the period in which we suffered more total losses than in all the rest of our life put together.
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Never chain your dogs together with sausages. One must accustom one’s self to be bored.
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Everything in life, is a question of drawing a life, John, and you have to decide for yourself where to draw it.
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Words are so often used in the opposite sense, as a screen of diversion. It’s the struggle towards truthfulness which is the same whether one is writing a poem, a novel or an argument.
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