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Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak.

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It is seeing which establishes our place in the surrounding world; we explain that world with words, but words can never undo the fact that we are surrounded by it
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The existence of pleasure is the first mystery. The existence of pain has prompted far more philosophical speculation.
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Never chain your dogs together with sausages. One must accustom one’s self to be bored.
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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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The zoo cannot but disappoint.
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The power of the glamorous resides in their supposed happiness: the power of the bureaucrat in his supposed authority.
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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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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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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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The envied are like bureaucrats; the more impersonal they are, the greater the illusion (for themselves and for others) of their power.
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The woman’s sexual passion needs to be minimized, so that the spectator may feel that he has the monopoly on such passion
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Without ethics man has no future. This is to say mankind without them cannot be itself.
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Advertising is not merely an assembly of competing messages; it is a language itself which is always being used to make the same general proposal
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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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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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We can become anything. That is why injustice is impossible here. There may be the accident of birth, there is no accident of death. Nothing forces us to remain what we were.
JOHN BERGER

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