Nakedness reveals itself. Nudity is placed on display. The nude is condemned to never being naked. Nudity is a form of dress.
JOHN BERGERPicasso drawings are like that… the Rembrandts are like that. The artist who most often did that was Van Gogh.
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You painted a naked woman because you enjoyed looking at her, put a mirror in her hand and you called the painting “Vanity,” thus morally condemning the woman whose nakedness you had depicted for you own pleasure.
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Every authentic poem contributes to the labor of poetry… to bring together what life has separated or violence has torn apart…
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We only see what we look at. To look is an act of choice.
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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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[O]ften art has judged the judges, pleaded revenge to the innocent and shown to the future what the past suffered, so that it has never been forgotten.
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Between the experience of living a normal life at this moment on the planet and the public narratives being offered to give a sense to that life, the empty space, the gap, is enormous.
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Picasso drawings are like that… the Rembrandts are like that. The artist who most often did that was Van Gogh.
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Ours is the century of enforced travel of disappearances.
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Poetry can repair no loss, but it defies the space which separates. And it does this by its continual labor of reassembling what has been scattered.
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It was more than that. It was the period in which we suffered more total losses than in all the rest of our life put together.
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All weddings are similar, but every marriage is different.
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Compare the cinema with theatre. Both are dramatic arts. Theatre brings actors before a public and every night during the season they re-enact the same drama.
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Ethics determine choices and actions and suggest difficult priorities.
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But toemigrate is always to dismantle the centre of the world, and so to move into a lost, disoriented one of fragments.
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The camera relieves us of the burden of memory.
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