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

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A photograph is a result of the photographer’s decision that it is worth recording that this particular event or this particular object has been seen. If everything that existed were continually being photographed, every photograph would become meaningless.
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Everything Meamimgless Object Particular Photograph Recording Result
To be naked is to be oneself.
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Be Naked Oneself
The power of the glamorous resides in their supposed happiness: the power of the bureaucrat in his supposed authority.
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Authority Bureaucrat Glamorous Happiness Power Reside Suppose
Tracing an imaginary line between a cluster of stars gave them an image and an identity.
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Between Cluster Gave Identity Image Imaginary Star Trace
All creation is in the art of seeing.
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All Creation Art See
Paintings record what the painter remembers. Because each one of us forgets different things, a photo more than a painting may change its meaning according to who is looking at it.
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Different Forget Look Meaning Pain Remember Thing
Deep in the nature of theatre is a sense of ritual. The cinema, by contrast, transports its audience individually, singly, out of the theatre towards the unknown.
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Audience Cinema Deep Individually Nature Ritual Theatre Transport Unknown
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.
JOHN BERGER

Naked Oneness Oneself Order Other Recognize Sight
Ours is the century of enforced travel of disappearances.
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Century Disappearance Enforce Horizon Our People Travel
In the average European oil painting of the nude the principal protagonist is never painted. He is the spectator in front of the picture and he is presumed to be a man.
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Average Country Men never Painting Presume Principal Protagonist Rude Spectator
Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion.
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Common Emotion Envy Exist Glamour Personal Social
A drawing is an autobiographical record of one’s discovery of an event – either seen, remembered or imagined. A ‘finished’ work is an attempt to construct an event in itself.
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Autobiographical Discovery Drawing Event Imagine Record Remembered Seen
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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Back Herself Love Offer Price Product Publicity Stealing
Capitalism survives by forcing the majority, whom it exploits, to define their own interests as narrowly as possible.
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Capitalism Country Define Exploit Interest Majority Narrow Possible Survive Today
We only see what we look at. To look is an act of choice.
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Act Choice Look Only See
When he painted a road, the roadmakers were there in his imagination, when he painted the turned earth of a ploughed field, the gesture of the blade turning the earth was included in his own act.
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Earth Field Gesture Imagination Paint Ploughed Reality Road Roadmaker Turn Warth
If every event which occurred could be given a name, there would be no need for stories.
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Event Given Name Need Occurred Story
The time of a cigarette is a parenthesis, and if it is shared, you are both in that parenthesis. Its like a proscenium arch for a dialogue.
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Cigarette Dialogue Noth Parentless Proscenium Shar Time
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 century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to them, disappear over the horizon.
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Century Close Disappear Helpless Horizon Other People See
Never chain your dogs together with sausages. One must accustom one’s self to be bored.
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Accustom Blessing Bored Chain Dog Sausage Self
Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.
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Look Love Men Women
We can become anything. That is why injustice is impossible here. There may be the accident of birth, there is no accident of death. Nothing forces us to remain what we were.
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Accident Anything Birth Impossible Injustice May Nothing Remain
All weddings are similar, but every marriage is different.
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Different Marriage Similar Wedding
These contradictions both hide and increase the natural ambiguity of the photographic image.
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Ambiguity Contradiction Image Increase Natural Photo Photograph
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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Always Constitute History Past Present Relation
A photograph is a meeting place where the interests of the photographer, the photographed, the viewer and those who are using the photograph are often contradictory.
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Contradiction Interest Meeting Natural Photo Photographer Place Use Viewer

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