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

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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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History always constitutes the relation between a present and its past. Consequently fear of the present leads to mystification of the past
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The relation between what we see and what we know is never settled. Each evening we see the sun set.
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Hope is a contraband passed from hand to hand and story to story.
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When he painted a road, the roadmakers were there in his imagination, when he painted the turned earth of a ploughed field, the gesture of the blade turning the earth was included in his own act.
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Those who first invented and then named the constellations were storytellers.
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Paintings record what the painter remembers. Because each one of us forgets different things, a photo more than a painting may change its meaning according to who is looking at it.
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A man’s presence suggests what he is capable of doing to you or for you.
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The extreme proposition on which Giacometti based all his mature work was that no reality… could ever be shared. This is why he believed it impossible for a work to be finished. This is why the content of any work is not the nature of the figure or head portrayed but the incomplete history of him staring at it.
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I can’t tell you what art does and how it does it, but I know that often art has judged the judges, pleaded revenge to the innocent and shown to the future what the past suffered, so that it has never been forgotten.
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Japanese art looked closely around screens; Italian Renaissance art surveyed conquered nature through the window or door-frame of a palace.
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All creation is in the art of seeing.
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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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That we find a crystal or a poppy beautiful means that we are less alone, that we are more deeply inserted into existence than the course of a single life would lead us to believe.
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Every painted image of something is also about the absence of the real thing. All painting is about the presence of absence.
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Publicity is the life of this culture – in so far as without publicity capitalism could not survive – and at the same time publicity is its dream.
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