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
JOHN BERGERWhen we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls.
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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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Common-sense is part of the home-made ideology of those who have been deprived of fundamental learning, of those who have been kept ignorant.
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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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Drawing is a way of coming upon the connection between things, just like metaphor in poetry reconnects what has become separated.
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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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Traditional Chinese art looked at the Earth from a Confucian mountain top;
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All photographs are there to remind us of what we forget. In this – as in other ways – they are the opposite of paintings.
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The true content of a photograph is invisible, for it derives from a play, not with form, but with time.
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If everything that existed were continually being photographed, every photograph would become meaningless.
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To be naked is to be oneself.
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When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls.
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This is not because they are callous or personally inhuman: it is because they live in and accept a society which is incapable of knowing what a human life is worth.
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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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Ethics determine choices and actions and suggest difficult priorities.
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Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.
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