If everything that existed were continually being photographed, every photograph would become meaningless.
JOHN BERGERJapanese art looked closely around screens; Italian Renaissance art surveyed conquered nature through the window or door-frame of a palace.
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To be naked is to be oneself. To be nude is to be seen naked by others and yet not recognized for oneself. A naked body has to be seen as an object in order to become a nude.
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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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A cigarette is a breathing space. It makes a parenthesis.
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Ours is the century of enforced travel of disappearances.
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The happiness of being envied is glamour. Being envied is a solitary form of reassurance. It depends precisely upon not sharing your experience with those who envy you.
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Unlike any other visual image, a photograph is not a rendering, an imitation or an interpretation of its subject, but actually a trace of it.
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The unsung, impersonal world remains outside, on the other surface of a placenta. All songs, even when their content or rendering is strongly masculine, operate maternally.
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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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Every authentic poem contributes to the labour of poetry… to bring together what life has separated or violence has torn apart.
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Writers who have neither product utopian trash.
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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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We follow songs in order to be enclosed. We find ourselves inside a message.
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We who draw do so not only to make something observed visible to others, but also to accompany something invisible to its incalculable destination
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One can say of language that it is potentially the only human home, the only dwelling place that cannot be hostile to man.
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For me, drawing is a lot to do with taking out, with returning to the white of the paper.
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