Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion.
JOHN BERGERWhenever the intensity of looking reaches a certain degree, one becomes aware of an equally intense energy coming towards one through the appearance of whatever it is one is scrutinizing.
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What distinguished man from animals was the human capacity for symbolic thought, the capacity which was inseparable from the development of language in which words were not mere signals, but signifiers of something other than themselves.
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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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You can plan events, but if they go according to your plan they are not events.
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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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When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls.
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Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak.
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To live and die amongst foreigners may seem less absurd than to live persecuted or tortured by one’s fellow countrymen….
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The animal has secrets which, unlike the secrets of caves, mountains, seas are specifically addressed to man.
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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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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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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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To remain innocent may also be. to remain ignorant.
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Everything in life, is a question of drawing a life, John, and you have to decide for yourself where to draw it.
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We know that the earth is turning away from it. Yet the knowledge, the explanation, never quite fits the sight.
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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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