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A man’s presence suggests what he is capable of doing to you or for you.

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Compassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural.
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A drawing is essentially a private work, related only to the artist’s own needs; a ‘finished’ statue or canvas is essentially a public, presented work – related far more directly to the demands of communication.
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This is not because they are callous or personally inhuman: it is because they live in and accept a society which is incapable of knowing what a human life is worth.
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Never chain your dogs together with sausages. One must accustom one’s self to be bored.
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Never again shall a single story be told as though it were the only one.
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The contradiction in perspective was that it structured all images of reality to address a single spectator who, unlike God, could only be in one place at a 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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Oil painting did to appearances what capital did to social relations. It reduced everything to the equality of objects.
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Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak.
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The animal has secrets which, unlike the secrets of caves, mountains, seas are specifically addressed to man.
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Painting is something that you need to do, if not every day, then certainly most days. It is almost like being a pianist: if you stop, you lose something.
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Everything became exchangeable because everything became a commodity.
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Whenever he looked he saw the labour of existence; and this labour, recognised as such, was what constituted reality for him. (On Vincent Van Gogh)
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Later alone it wore poems for clothes. Like a shirt I carried on my back the poetry I had read. So I lived for half a century until wordlessly we met. From my shirt on the back of the chair I learn tonight how many years of learning by heart I waited for you.
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A tactic which allows people, as distinct from their elected but often craven governments, to apply a certain pressure on those wielding power in what they, the boycotters, consider to be an unjust or immoral way.
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Photographs bear witness to a human choice being exercised in a given situation.
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