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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.

John Berger

Writers who have neither product utopian trash.
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Neither Product Truth Utopian Writer
Hope is a contraband passed from hand to hand and story to story.
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Contraband Hand Stories
If the public photograph contributes to a memory, it is to the memory of an unknowable and total stranger.
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Contribute Memories Photograph Stranger Unknowable
A photograph is a meeting place where the interests of the photographer, the photographed, the viewer and those who are using the photograph are often contradictory.
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Contradiction Interest Meeting Natural Photo Photographer Place Use Viewer
Do you know the legend about cicadas? They say they are the souls of poets who cannot keep quiet because, when they were alive, they never wrote the poems they wanted to.
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Alive Cicadas Legend Poem Poet Quiet Soul
It is not an art of the princes or the bourgeoisie. It is popular and vagrant. In the sky of the cinema people learn what they might have been and discover what belongs to them apart from their single lives.
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Art Bourgeoisie Cinema Discover Learn People Popular Princes Single Sky Vagrant
Poetry can repair no loss, but it defies the space which separates. And it does this by its continual labor of reassembling what has been scattered.
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Continual Define Poetry Reassembking Repair Scattered Separate Space
No painting or drawing, however naturalist, belongs to its subject in the way that a photograph does.
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Belong Draw Naturalist Paint Photograph Subject Way
Nakedness reveals itself. Nudity is placed on display. The nude is condemned to never being naked. Nudity is a form of dress.
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Beauty Condemned Display Dresses Naked Nue Place
We who draw do so not only to make something observed visible to others, but also to accompany something invisible to its incalculable destination
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Calculate Destination Draws Invisible Make Observed Something Visible
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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Add All Cutting Daily Future Mean Media Modernism Past Presently
It was more than that. It was the period in which we suffered more total losses than in all the rest of our life put together.
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Life Loss More Period Rest Suffer Together
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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Artist Communication Drawing Finished Need Only Private Public Relate Statue Work
All creation is in the art of seeing.
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All Creation Art See
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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Both Case Common Hate Love Opposite Separate Something
When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls.
JOHN BERGER

Book Inhabit Like Reading Real Roof Story Wall

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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