Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.
JOHN BERGERBut toemigrate is always to dismantle the centre of the world, and so to move into a lost, disoriented one of fragments.
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Photography, because it stops the flow of life, is always flirting with death.
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A tactic which allows people, as distinct from their elected but often craven governments, to apply a certain pressure on those wielding power in what they, the boycotters, consider to be an unjust or immoral way.
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A cigarette is a breathing space. It makes a parenthesis.
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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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There’s the artist’s intimacy and truthfulness to himself, but an equal intimacy to the Other [the one drawn].
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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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Never chain your dogs together with sausages. One must accustom one’s self to be bored.
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Nothing in the nature around us is evil. This needs to be repeated since one of the human ways of talking oneself into inhuman acts is to cite the supposed cruelty of nature.
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The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.
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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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For the Cro-Magnons, space is a metaphysical arena of continually intermittent appearances and disappearances.
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But toemigrate is always to dismantle the centre of the world, and so to move into a lost, disoriented one of fragments.
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Those who first invented and then named the constellations were storytellers.
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Today the discredit of words is very great.
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The heart of Paris is like nothing so much as the unending interior of a house.
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