Protest and anger practically always derives from hope, and the shouting out against injustice is always in the hope of those injustices being somewhat corrected and a little more justice established.
JOHN BERGERWhat is saved in the cinema when it achieves art is a spontaneous continuity with all mankind.
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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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The publicity image steals her love of herself as she is, and offers it back to her for the price of the product.
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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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The time of a cigarette is a parenthesis, and if it is shared, you are both in that parenthesis. Its like a proscenium arch for a dialogue.
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What any true painting touches is an absence – an absence of which without the painting, we might be unaware. And that would be our loss.
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Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.
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The impulse to paint comes neither from observation nor from the soul (which is probably blind) but from an encounter: the encounter between painter and model: even if the model is a mountain or a shelf of empty medicine bottles.
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The zoo cannot but disappoint.
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We never look at just one thing; we are always looking at the relation between things and ourselves.
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Everything became exchangeable because everything became a commodity.
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The spectator-buyer is meant to envy herself as she will become if she buys the product.
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The heart of Paris is like nothing so much as the unending interior of a house.
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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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When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls.
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Writers who have neither product utopian trash.
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