Pleasure 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
JOHN BERGERFor those who are behind the curtain, landmarks are no longer only geographic but also biographical and personal
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Buildings become furniture, courtyards become carpets and arrases, the streets are like galleries, the boulevards conservatories. It is a house, one or two centuries old, rich, bourgeois, distinguished. The only way of going out, or shutting the door behind you, is to leave the centre.
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What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time.
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We follow songs in order to be enclosed. We find ourselves inside a message.
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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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History always constitutes the relation between a present and its past. Consequently fear of the present leads to mystification of the past
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Tracing an imaginary line between a cluster of stars gave them an image and an identity.
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You can plan events, but if they go according to your plan they are not events.
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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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I wanted to write about looking at the world, so it’s more about helping people, or persuading people, to see what is around us; both the marvellous and the terrible.
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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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All creation is in the art of seeing.
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Photography, because it stops the flow of life, is always flirting with death.
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The spectator-buyer is meant to envy herself as she will become if she buys the product.
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Hope is a contraband passed from hand to hand and story to story.
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Capitalism survives by forcing the majority, whom it exploits, to define their own interests as narrowly as possible.
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