Ours is the century of enforced travel of disappearances.
JOHN BERGERWhat distinguished man from animals was the human capacity for symbolic thought, the capacity which was inseparable from the development of language in which words were not mere signals, but signifiers of something other than themselves.
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Pleasure and pain need to be considered together; they are inseparable. Yet the space filled by each is perhaps different. Pleasure, defined as a sense of gratification, is essential for nature
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For the artist, drawing is discovery. And that is not just a slick phrase; it is quite literally true.
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For those who are behind the curtain, landmarks are no longer only geographic but also biographical and personal
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Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak.
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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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The human imagination… has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist practice or philosophy.
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Between the experience of living a normal life at this moment on the planet and the public narratives being offered to give a sense to that life, the empty space, the gap, is enormous.
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We only see what we look at. To look is an act of choice.
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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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When we suffer anguish we return to early childhood because that is the period in which we first learnt to suffer the experience of total loss.
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Writers who have neither product utopian trash.
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The essence of songs is neither vocal nor cerebral but organic.
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Everything in life, is a question of drawing a life, John, and you have to decide for yourself where to draw it.
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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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It is comparatively easy to achieve a certain unity in a picture by allowing one colour to dominate, or by muting all the colours.
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