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What is to happen next will take place within the four walls of the story. And this is possible because the story’s voice makes everything its own.

John Berger

Photography, because it stops the flow of life, is always flirting with death.
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Death Flirting Flow Life Photography
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
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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Alone Beautiful Believe Crystal Deeply Existence Less More Nature Ours Poppy
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
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
Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time has become Death triumphant over all.
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Character Death Modern Notion Spectular Time Transferred
What is saved in the cinema when it achieves art is a spontaneous continuity with all mankind.
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Achieve All Art Cinema Mankind People Save Sky Spontaneous
The surveyor of woman in herself is male: the surveyed female. Thus she turns herself into an object – and most particularly an object of vision: a sight.
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Female Herself Object Sight Surveyed Turn Vision Woman
A man’s presence suggests what he is capable of doing to you or for you.
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Capable Contrast Done Men Presence Suggest You
Tracing an imaginary line between a cluster of stars gave them an image and an identity.
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Between Cluster Gave Identity Image Imaginary Star Trace
All creation is in the art of seeing.
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All Creation Art See
It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open.
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Basket Dog Dream Haire Like Open
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
Paintings record what the painter remembers. Because each one of us forgets different things, a photo more than a painting may change its meaning according to who is looking at it.
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Different Forget Look Meaning Pain Remember Thing
There’s the artist’s intimacy and truthfulness to himself, but an equal intimacy to the Other [the one drawn].
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Artist Drawing Drawn Equal Intimacy Other Truthfulness
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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Achieve Country Deprivation Desirable Develop False Impose Intensive Standard Today

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