When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls.
JOHN BERGERPicasso drawings are like that… the Rembrandts are like that. The artist who most often did that was Van Gogh.
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Unlike any other visual image, a photograph is not a rendering, an imitation or an interpretation of its subject, but actually a trace of it.
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Post-modernism has cut off the present from all futures. The daily media add to this by cutting off the past. Which means that critical opinion is often orphaned in the present.
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Matisse did neither. He clashed his colours together like cymbals and the effect was like a lullaby.
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Hair is associated with sexual power. With passion.
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Every authentic poem contributes to the labour of poetry… to bring together what life has separated or violence has torn apart.
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A photograph is a result of the photographer’s decision that it is worth recording that this particular event or this particular object has been seen. If everything that existed were continually being photographed, every photograph would become meaningless.
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Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.
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Art, when it functions like this, becomes a meeting-place of the invisible, the irreducible, the enduring, guts, and honor.
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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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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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Without ethics man has no future. This is to say mankind without them cannot be itself.
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No painting or drawing, however naturalist, belongs to its subject in the way that a photograph does.
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If the public photograph contributes to a memory, it is to the memory of an unknowable and total stranger.
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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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This was once achieved by extensive deprivation. Today in the developed countries it is being achieved by imposing a false standard of what is and what is not desirable.
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