For the Cro-Magnons, space is a metaphysical arena of continually intermittent appearances and disappearances.
JOHN BERGERPainting 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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Traditional Chinese art looked at the Earth from a Confucian mountain top;
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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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What is to happen next will take place within the four walls of the story. And this is possible because the story’s voice makes everything its own.
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To be naked is to be oneself.
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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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All publicity works upon anxiety.
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The surveyor of woman in herself is male: the surveyed female. Thus she turns herself into an object – and most particularly an object of vision: a sight.
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Matisse did neither. He clashed his colours together like cymbals and the effect was like a lullaby.
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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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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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Publicity is the life of this culture – in so far as without publicity capitalism could not survive – and at the same time publicity is its dream.
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The century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to them, disappear over the horizon.
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Oil painting did to appearances what capital did to social relations. It reduced everything to the equality of objects.
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Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion.
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The existence of pleasure is the first mystery. The existence of pain has prompted far more philosophical speculation.
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