Compare the cinema with theatre. Both are dramatic arts. Theatre brings actors before a public and every night during the season they re-enact the same drama.
JOHN BERGERThis determines not only most relations between men and women but also the relation of women to themselves.
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In the average European oil painting of the nude the principal protagonist is never painted. He is the spectator in front of the picture and he is presumed to be a man.
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Every authentic poem contributes to the labor of poetry… to bring together what life has separated or violence has torn apart…
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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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What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time.
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Ours is the century of enforced travel of disappearances.
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Ethics determine choices and actions and suggest difficult priorities.
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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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The unsung, impersonal world remains outside, on the other surface of a placenta. All songs, even when their content or rendering is strongly masculine, operate maternally.
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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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The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich.
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You painted a naked woman because you enjoyed looking at her, put a mirror in her hand and you called the painting “Vanity,” thus morally condemning the woman whose nakedness you had depicted for you own pleasure.
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Capitalism survives by forcing the majority, whom it exploits, to define their own interests as narrowly as possible.
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The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.
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It can happen that a book, unlike its authors, grows younger as the years pass.
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All publicity works upon anxiety.
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