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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She is meant to imagine herself transformed by the product into an object of envy for others, an envy which will then justify her loving herself.
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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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For me, drawing is a lot to do with taking out, with returning to the white of the paper.
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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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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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All creation is in the art of seeing.
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These contradictions both hide and increase the natural ambiguity of the photographic image.
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One can say of language that it is potentially the only human home, the only dwelling place that cannot be hostile to man.
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We follow songs in order to be enclosed. We find ourselves inside a message.
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Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak.
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It is not an art of the princes or the bourgeoisie. It is popular and vagrant. In the sky of the cinema people learn what they might have been and discover what belongs to them apart from their single lives.
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A peasant becomes fond of his pig and is glad to salt away its pork.
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If everything that existed were continually being photographed, every photograph would become meaningless.
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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 stars threaded on that line were like events threaded on a narrative. Imagining the constellations did not of course change the stars, nor did it change the black emptiness that surrounds them. What it changed was the way people read the night sky.
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