All publicity works upon anxiety.
JOHN BERGERWhat is significant, and is so difficult for the urban stranger to understand, is that the two statements are connected by an and not by a but.
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Yet nowherein a zoo can a stranger encounter the look of an animal. At the most, the animal’s gaze flickers and passes on. They look sideways. They look blindly beyond.
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History always constitutes the relation between a present and its past. Consequently fear of the present leads to mystification of the past
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What is saved in the cinema when it achieves art is a spontaneous continuity with all mankind.
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She is meant to imagine herself transformed by the product into an object of envy for others, an envy which will then justify her loving herself.
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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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All weddings are similar, but every marriage is different.
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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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Hair is associated with sexual power. With passion.
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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.
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The existence of pleasure is the first mystery. The existence of pain has prompted far more philosophical speculation.
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Fanaticism comes from any form of chosen blindness accompanying the pursuit of a single dogma.
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Painting is something that you need to do, if not every day, then certainly most days. It is almost like being a pianist: if you stop, you lose something.
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Tracing an imaginary line between a cluster of stars gave them an image and an identity.
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As Nelson Mandela has pointed out, boycott is not a principle, it is a tactic depending upon circumstances.
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I can’t tell you what art does and how it does it, but I know that often art has judged the judges, pleaded revenge to the innocent and shown to the future what the past suffered, so that it has never been forgotten.
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