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I wanted to write about looking at the world, so it’s more about helping people, or persuading people, to see what is around us; both the marvellous and the terrible.

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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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Buildings become furniture, courtyards become carpets and arrases, the streets are like galleries, the boulevards conservatories. It is a house, one or two centuries old, rich, bourgeois, distinguished. The only way of going out, or shutting the door behind you, is to leave the centre.
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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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The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.
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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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When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls.
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Yet the first symbols were animals. What distinguished men from animals was born of their relationship with them.
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Compassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural.
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The zoo cannot but disappoint. The public purpose of zoos is to offer visitors the opportunity of looking at animals.
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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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When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls.
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Fanaticism comes from any form of chosen blindness accompanying the pursuit of a single dogma.
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The century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to them, disappear over the horizon.
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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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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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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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