A photograph is a result of the photographer’s decision that it is worth recording that this particular event or this particular object has been seen. If everything that existed were continually being photographed, every photograph would become meaningless.
JOHN BERGERHair is associated with sexual power. With passion.
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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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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 publicity works upon anxiety.
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Nakedness reveals itself. Nudity is placed on display. The nude is condemned to never being naked. Nudity is a form of dress.
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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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These contradictions both hide and increase the natural ambiguity of the photographic image.
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No painting or drawing, however naturalist, belongs to its subject in the way that a photograph does.
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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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Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.
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The relation between what we see and what we know is never settled. Each evening we see the sun set.
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Every painted image of something is also about the absence of the real thing. All painting is about the presence of absence.
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Without ethics man has no future. This is to say mankind without them cannot be itself.
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All weddings are similar, but every marriage is different.
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A drawing is an autobiographical record of one’s discovery of an event – either seen, remembered or imagined. A ‘finished’ work is an attempt to construct an event in itself.
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