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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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Hair is associated with sexual power. With passion.
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Picasso drawings are like that… the Rembrandts are like that. The artist who most often did that was Van Gogh.
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The camera relieves us of the burden of memory.
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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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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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Matisse did neither. He clashed his colours together like cymbals and the effect was like a lullaby.
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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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We only see what we look at. To look is an act of choice.
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The strange power of art is sometimes it can show that what people have in common is more urgent than what differentiates them. It seems to me it’s something that theatre can do, but it’s rare; it’s very rare.
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These contradictions both hide and increase the natural ambiguity of the photographic image.
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In the average European oil painting of the nude the principal protagonist is never painted. He is the spectator in front of the picture and he is presumed to be a man.
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The century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to them, disappear over the horizon.
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Post-modernism has cut off the present from all futures. The daily media add to this by cutting off the past. Which means that critical opinion is often orphaned in the present.
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All photographs are there to remind us of what we forget. In this – as in other ways – they are the opposite of paintings.
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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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