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All publicity works upon anxiety.

John Berger

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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Always Centre Dismantle Emigrate Fragment Lost Move World
That we find a crystal or a poppy beautiful means that we are less alone, that we are more deeply inserted into existence than the course of a single life would lead us to believe.
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Alone Beautiful Believe Crystal Deeply Existence Less More Nature Ours Poppy
Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak.
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Children Looks Speak Recognize Word
When we suffer anguish we return to early childhood because that is the period in which we first learnt to suffer the experience of total loss.
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Anguish Childhood Grief Learn Loss Period Suffer Total
The relation between what we see and what we know is never settled. Each evening we see the sun set.
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Between Know Relation Settle
For me, drawing is a lot to do with taking out, with returning to the white of the paper.
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Lot Me Out Paper Returning Take White
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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Animal Beyond Blindly Encounter Flicker Gaze Look Most Pass Stranger
It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open.
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Basket Dog Dream Haire Like Open
The strange power of art is sometimes it can show that what people have in common is more urgent than what differentiates them. It seems to me it’s something that theatre can do, but it’s rare; it’s very rare.
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Art Common Differentiate More People Power Rare Sometimes Strange Theatre Urgent
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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Female Herself Object Sight Surveyed Turn Vision Woman
Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.
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Believe City Country Love Man Men Older Twenties Woman
What is saved in the cinema when it achieves art is a spontaneous continuity with all mankind.
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Achieve All Art Cinema Mankind People Save Sky Spontaneous
She is meant to imagine herself transformed by the product into an object of envy for others, an envy which will then justify her loving herself.
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Envy Herself Imagine Justify Loving Menat Object Other Product Transform
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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Different Forget Look Meaning Pain Remember Thing
The essence of songs is neither vocal nor cerebral but organic.
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Celebrate Essence Order Organic Song Vocal
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

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