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For me, drawing is a lot to do with taking out, with returning to the white of the paper.

John Berger

By contrast, a woman’s presence… defines what can and cannot be done to her.
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Contrast Define Done Her Presence Women
No painting or drawing, however naturalist, belongs to its subject in the way that a photograph does.
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Belong Draw Naturalist Paint Photograph Subject Way
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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Add All Cutting Daily Future Mean Media Modernism Past Presently
All photographs are there to remind us of what we forget. In this – as in other ways – they are the opposite of paintings.
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Forget Opposite Other Pain Painting Photography Remind Way
Landscapes can be deceptive. Sometimes a landscape seems to be less a setting for the life of its inhabitants than a curtain behind which their struggles, achievements and accidents takes place.
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Achievement Behind Deceptive Landscape Life Seem Setting Sometimes Struggle Success
Without ethics man has no future. This is to say mankind without them cannot be itself.
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Choices Ethics Future Itself Mankind Men Priorities
It is not usually possible in a poem or a story to make the relationship between particular and universal fully explicit. Those who try to do so end up writing parables.
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Between Explicit Fully Make Relationship Stories Trying Universal Usually Writing
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
Every authentic poem contributes to the labour of poetry… to bring together what life has separated or violence has torn apart.
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Apart Authentic Contribute Labor Poem Poetry Separate Together Violence
You cant draw it for others. You can try, of course, but it doesn’t work. People obeying rules laid down my somebody else is not the same thing as respecting life. And if you want to respect life, you have to draw a line.
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Course Else Life Line Obey Other People Respect Somebody
Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion.
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Common Emotion Envy Exist Glamour Personal Social
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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Accident Anything Birth Impossible Injustice May Nothing Remain
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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Both Case Common Hate Love Opposite Separate Something
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
Nothing fortuitous happens in a child’s world. There are no accidents. Everything is connected with everything else and everything can be explained by everything else. . . . For a young child everything that happens is a necessity.
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Child Children Fortuitouus Happen Nothing World Young
Protest and anger practically always derives from hope, and the shouting out against injustice is always in the hope of those injustices being somewhat corrected and a little more justice established.
JOHN BERGER

Adjustment Against Derive Hope Injustice Justice Little Protest Shouting

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