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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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Change Constellation Event Imagining Night People Sky Surround Threaded
The camera relieves us of the burden of memory. It surveys us like God, and it surveys for us. Yet no other god has been so cynical, for the camera records in order to forget.
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Burden Camera Forget God Like Memories Photography Relieve Survey Us Yet
Fanaticism comes from any form of chosen blindness accompanying the pursuit of a single dogma.
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Buildings become furniture, courtyards become carpets and arrases, the streets are like galleries, the boulevards conservatories. It is a house, one or two centuries old, rich, bourgeois, distinguished. The only way of going out, or shutting the door behind you, is to leave the centre.
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Behind Bourgeois Building Conservatories Door Furniture Galleries Go House Shutting Street Way
We know that the earth is turning away from it. Yet the knowledge, the explanation, never quite fits the sight.
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Earth Explanation Knowledge Quite Sight Yet
A photograph is a meeting place where the interests of the photographer, the photographed, the viewer and those who are using the photograph are often contradictory.
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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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The contradiction in perspective was that it structured all images of reality to address a single spectator who, unlike God, could only be in one place at a time.
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Between the experience of living a normal life at this moment on the planet and the public narratives being offered to give a sense to that life, the empty space, the gap, is enormous.
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Experience Give Giving Moment Narrative Normal Offer Planet Public Sense Space
Deep in the nature of theatre is a sense of ritual. The cinema, by contrast, transports its audience individually, singly, out of the theatre towards the unknown.
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Audience Cinema Deep Individually Nature Ritual Theatre Transport Unknown
Advertising is not merely an assembly of competing messages; it is a language itself which is always being used to make the same general proposal
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Advertising Assembly Being Competing Language Merely Message Messages Same Use
Picasso drawings are like that… the Rembrandts are like that. The artist who most often did that was Van Gogh.
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Artist Celebrity Country Drawing Epson Expert Like Most Often People Picasso Rembrandts
This determines not only most relations between men and women but also the relation of women to themselves.
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Determine Effection Men Most Only Relation Relationship Themselves Wome
The heart of Paris is like nothing so much as the unending interior of a house.
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Country Doors Heart House Interior Two Unending
The true content of a photograph is invisible, for it derives from a play, not with form, but with time.
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Art, when it functions like this, becomes a meeting-place of the invisible, the irreducible, the enduring, guts, and honor.
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