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Photographs bear witness to a human choice being exercised in a given situation.

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Oil painting did to appearances what capital did to social relations. It reduced everything to the equality of objects.
JOHN BERGER

Appearance Capital Equality Everything Object Oil Painting Reduce Relation Social
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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Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time has become Death triumphant over all.
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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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Absorb Activity Draw Else Everything Forget Happen Mean Think Thinking
Every authentic poem contributes to the labour of poetry… to bring together what life has separated or violence has torn apart.
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Whenever the intensity of looking reaches a certain degree, one becomes aware of an equally intense energy coming towards one through the appearance of whatever it is one is scrutinizing.
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Appearance Aware Become Certain Come Degree Degrees Energy Intense Intensity Look Scrutinizing Towards
It is comparatively easy to achieve a certain unity in a picture by allowing one colour to dominate, or by muting all the colours.
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Allow Artist Certain Colour Comparitively Dominate Easy Mute Together Unity
These contradictions both hide and increase the natural ambiguity of the photographic image.
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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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Photography, because it stops the flow of life, is always flirting with death.
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Death Flirting Flow Life Photography
Ever since the Greek tragedies, artists have, from time to time, asked themselves how they might influence ongoing political events.
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To be naked is to be oneself.
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Be Naked Oneself
The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich.
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Publicity is the life of this culture – in so far as without publicity capitalism could not survive – and at the same time publicity is its dream.
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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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Beauty Naked Oneself Recognise Seen
We only see what we look at. To look is an act of choice.
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