Traditional Chinese art looked at the Earth from a Confucian mountain top;
JOHN BERGERCompassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity.
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All weddings are similar, but every marriage is different.
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Without ethics man has no future. This is to say mankind without them cannot be itself.
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It is seeing which establishes our place in the surrounding world; we explain that world with words, but words can never undo the fact that we are surrounded by it
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The essence of songs is neither vocal nor cerebral but organic.
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This was once achieved by extensive deprivation. Today in the developed countries it is being achieved by imposing a false standard of what is and what is not desirable.
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The camera relieves us of the burden of memory.
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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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But toemigrate is always to dismantle the centre of the world, and so to move into a lost, disoriented one of fragments.
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We know that the earth is turning away from it. Yet the knowledge, the explanation, never quite fits the sight.
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I use charcoal a lot. Partly because it has such a fantastic range but also because it is very easy to erase.
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A cigarette is a breathing space. It makes a parenthesis.
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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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The woman’s sexual passion needs to be minimized, so that the spectator may feel that he has the monopoly on such passion
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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 zoo cannot but disappoint. The public purpose of zoos is to offer visitors the opportunity of looking at animals.
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