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The true content of a photograph is invisible, for it derives from a play, not with form, but with time.

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We know that the earth is turning away from it. Yet the knowledge, the explanation, never quite fits the sight.
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Writers who have neither product utopian trash.
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Yet nowherein a zoo can a stranger encounter the look of an animal. At the most, the animal’s gaze flickers and passes on. They look sideways. They look blindly beyond.
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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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At times failure is very necessary for the artist. It reminds him that failure is not the ultimate disaster. And this reminder liberates him from the mean fussing of perfectionism.
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