The opposite of love is not to hate but to separate. If love and hate have something in common it is because, in both cases, their energy is that of bringing and holding together
JOHN BERGERWhat is saved in the cinema when it achieves art is a spontaneous continuity with all mankind.
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Oil painting did to appearances what capital did to social relations. It reduced everything to the equality of objects.
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It can happen that a book, unlike its authors, grows younger as the years pass.
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It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open.
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The human imagination… has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist practice or philosophy.
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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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We who draw do so not only to make something observed visible to others, but also to accompany something invisible to its incalculable destination
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Protest and anger practically always derives from hope, and the shouting out against injustice is always in the hope of those injustices being somewhat corrected and a little more justice established.
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We only see what we look at. To look is an act of choice.
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Traditional Chinese art looked at the Earth from a Confucian mountain top;
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If the public photograph contributes to a memory, it is to the memory of an unknowable and total stranger.
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Your lips, beloved, are like a honeycomb: honey and milk are under the tongue. And the smell of your clothes is like the smell of my home.
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The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.
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The envied are like bureaucrats; the more impersonal they are, the greater the illusion (for themselves and for others) of their power.
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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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The publicity image steals her love of herself as she is, and offers it back to her for the price of the product.
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