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.
JOHN BERGERThe 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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What any true painting touches is an absence – an absence of which without the painting, we might be unaware. And that would be our loss.
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Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity.
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Hair is associated with sexual power. With passion.
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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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These contradictions both hide and increase the natural ambiguity of the photographic image.
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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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Compassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural.
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Later alone it wore poems for clothes. Like a shirt I carried on my back the poetry I had read. So I lived for half a century until wordlessly we met. From my shirt on the back of the chair I learn tonight how many years of learning by heart I waited for you.
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To be naked is to be oneself. To be nude is to be seen naked by others and yet not recognized for oneself. A naked body has to be seen as an object in order to become a nude.
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When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls.
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Every authentic poem contributes to the labor of poetry… to bring together what life has separated or violence has torn apart…
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Japanese art looked closely around screens; Italian Renaissance art surveyed conquered nature through the window or door-frame of a palace.
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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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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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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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All creation is in the art of seeing.
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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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My heart born naked was swaddled in lullabies.
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(The sight of it as an object stimulates the use of it as an object.) Nakedness reveals itself. Nudity is placed on display. To be naked is to be without disguises.
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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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Do you know the legend about cicadas? They say they are the souls of poets who cannot keep quiet because, when they were alive, they never wrote the poems they wanted to.
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It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open.
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Paintings record what the painter remembers. Because each one of us forgets different things, a photo more than a painting may change its meaning according to who is looking at it.
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What is saved in the cinema when it achieves art is a spontaneous continuity with all mankind.
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Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak.
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Tracing an imaginary line between a cluster of stars gave them an image and an identity.
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