Without ethics man has no future. This is to say mankind without them cannot be itself.
JOHN BERGERA drawing is essentially a private work, related only to the artist’s own needs; a ‘finished’ statue or canvas is essentially a public, presented work – related far more directly to the demands of communication.
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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
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Those who first invented and then named the constellations were storytellers.
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If every event which occurred could be given a name, there would be no need for stories.
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Poetry can repair no loss, but it defies the space which separates. And it does this by its continual labor of reassembling what has been scattered.
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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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All publicity works upon anxiety.
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This 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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To be naked is to be oneself. To be nude is to be seen naked by others and yet not recognized for oneself. A naked body has to be seen as an object in order to become a nude.
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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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What is saved in the cinema when it achieves art is a spontaneous continuity with all mankind.
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We never look at just one thing; we are always looking at the relation between things and ourselves.
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Ever since the Greek tragedies, artists have, from time to time, asked themselves how they might influence ongoing political events.
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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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No painting or drawing, however naturalist, belongs to its subject in the way that a photograph does.
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