The century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to them, disappear over the horizon.
JOHN BERGER
It is seeing which establishes our place in the surrounding world; we explain that world with words, but words can never undo the fact that we are surrounded by it
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The century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to them, disappear over the horizon.
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Ever since the Greek tragedies, artists have, from time to time, asked themselves how they might influence ongoing political events.
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It is not an art of the princes or the bourgeoisie. It is popular and vagrant. In the sky of the cinema people learn what they might have been and discover what belongs to them apart from their single lives.
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For me, drawing is a lot to do with taking out, with returning to the white of the paper.
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We know that the earth is turning away from it. Yet the knowledge, the explanation, never quite fits the sight.
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The zoo cannot but disappoint. The public purpose of zoos is to offer visitors the opportunity of looking at animals.
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A cigarette is a breathing space. It makes a parenthesis.
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A man’s presence suggests what he is capable of doing to you or for you.
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Hope is a contraband passed from hand to hand and story to story.
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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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The heart of Paris is like nothing so much as the unending interior of a house.
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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
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Without ethics man has no future. This is to say mankind without them cannot be itself.
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Advertising is not merely an assembly of competing messages; it is a language itself which is always being used to make the same general proposal
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