As Nelson Mandela has pointed out, boycott is not a principle, it is a tactic depending upon circumstances.
JOHN BERGERPleasure and pain need to be considered together; they are inseparable. Yet the space filled by each is perhaps different. Pleasure, defined as a sense of gratification, is essential for nature
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Post-modernism has cut off the present from all futures. The daily media add to this by cutting off the past. Which means that critical opinion is often orphaned in the present.
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What is significant, and is so difficult for the urban stranger to understand, is that the two statements are connected by an and not by a but.
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To be naked is to be oneself. To be nude is to be seen naked by others and yet not recognised for oneself.
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Never chain your dogs together with sausages. One must accustom one’s self to be bored.
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The essence of songs is neither vocal nor cerebral but organic.
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We who draw do so not only to make something observed visible to others, but also to accompany something invisible to its incalculable destination
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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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Every painted image of something is also about the absence of the real thing. All painting is about the presence of absence.
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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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To be naked is to be oneself.
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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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We can become anything. That is why injustice is impossible here. There may be the accident of birth, there is no accident of death. Nothing forces us to remain what we were.
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What do drawings mean to me? I really don’t know. The activity absorbs me. I forget everything else in a way that I don’t think happens with any other activity.
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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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My heart born naked was swaddled in lullabies.
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