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I've been accused of vulgarity. I say that's bullshit.

Fatally, the term 'barbarian' is the password that opens up the archives of the twentieth century. I...

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I believe...that to be very poor and very beautiful is most probably a moral failure more than an ar...

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The unary Photograph has every reason to be banal, 'unity' of composition being the first rule of vu...

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Roland BarthesCamera Lucida: Reflections on Photography

If you truly love film, I think the healthiest thing to do is not read books on the subject. I prefe...

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I love luxury. And luxury lies not in richness and ornateness but in the absence of vulgarity. Vulga...

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Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity.

Vulgarity begins when imagination succumbs to the explicit.

How true is the saying that the very highest in rank are always the most simple and kindly. It is fr...

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[O]ne man's vulgarity is another's lyric.