The animal has secrets which, unlike the secrets of caves, mountains, seas are specifically addressed to man.
JOHN BERGERThe unsung, impersonal world remains outside, on the other surface of a placenta. All songs, even when their content or rendering is strongly masculine, operate maternally.
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What do drawings mean to me? I really don’t know. The activity absorbs me. I forget everything else in a way that I don’t think happens with any other activity.
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No painting or drawing, however naturalist, belongs to its subject in the way that a photograph does.
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This determines not only most relations between men and women but also the relation of women to themselves.
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We never look at just one thing; we are always looking at the relation between things and ourselves.
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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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Painting is something that you need to do, if not every day, then certainly most days. It is almost like being a pianist: if you stop, you lose something.
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Emigration, forced or chosen, across national frontiers or from village to metropolis, is the quintessential experience of our time.
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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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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 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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Nakedness reveals itself. Nudity is placed on display. The nude is condemned to never being naked. Nudity is a form of dress.
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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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For the artist, drawing is discovery. And that is not just a slick phrase; it is quite literally true.
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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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To be naked is to be oneself. To be nude is to be seen naked by others and yet not recognised for oneself.
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