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What is saved in the cinema when it achieves art is a spontaneous continuity with all mankind.

John Berger

Nothing in the nature around us is evil. This needs to be repeated since one of the human ways of talking oneself into inhuman acts is to cite the supposed cruelty of nature.
JOHN BERGER

Act Around Evil Human Inhuman Nature Need Nothing Repeated Talking Way
The extreme proposition on which Giacometti based all his mature work was that no reality… could ever be shared. This is why he believed it impossible for a work to be finished. This is why the content of any work is not the nature of the figure or head portrayed but the incomplete history of him staring at it.
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Bases Extreme Finishing Giacometti History Impossible Incomplete Portrayed Proposition Reality Share Staring
At times failure is very necessary for the artist. It reminds him that failure is not the ultimate disaster. And this reminder liberates him from the mean fussing of perfectionism.
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Artist Disaster Failure Mean Necessary Perfection Time Ultimate
You can plan events, but if they go according to your plan they are not events.
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According Event Events Plan Plans
Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity.
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Basis Compassion Natural Necessity Operate Order Place World
Everything became exchangeable because everything became a commodity.
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Become Commodity Everything Exchangeable
This determines not only most relations between men and women but also the relation of women to themselves.
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Determine Effection Men Most Only Relation Relationship Themselves Wome
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.
JOHN BERGER

Art Common Differentiate More People Power Rare Sometimes Strange Theatre Urgent
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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Behind Bourgeois Building Conservatories Door Furniture Galleries Go House Shutting Street Way
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
Picasso drawings are like that… the Rembrandts are like that. The artist who most often did that was Van Gogh.
JOHN BERGER

Artist Celebrity Country Drawing Epson Expert Like Most Often People Picasso Rembrandts
If everything that existed were continually being photographed, every photograph would become meaningless.
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Community Everything Exist Meaningless Photograph
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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Almost Being Certainly Certainty Need Painting Pianist Something
Today the discredit of words is very great.
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Discredit Great Hijacking Today Word
The 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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All Content Impersonal Maternity Operate Outside Placenta Remain Song Surface
To be naked is to be oneself. To be nude is to be seen naked by others and yet not recognised for oneself.
JOHN BERGER

Beauty Naked Oneself Recognise Seen

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