Publicity is the life of this culture – in so far as without publicity capitalism could not survive – and at the same time publicity is its dream.
JOHN BERGEROne of the fundamental reasons why so many doctors become cynical and disillusioned is precisely because, when the abstract idealism has worn thin, they are uncertain about the value of the actual lives of the patients they are treating.
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One of the fundamental reasons why so many doctors become cynical and disillusioned is precisely because, when the abstract idealism has worn thin, they are uncertain about the value of the actual lives of the patients they are treating.
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If everything that existed were continually being photographed, every photograph would become meaningless.
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Hair is associated with sexual power. With passion.
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Everything became exchangeable because everything became a commodity.
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To remain innocent may also be. to remain ignorant.
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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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We know that the earth is turning away from it. Yet the knowledge, the explanation, never quite fits the sight.
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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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Drawing is a way of coming upon the connection between things, just like metaphor in poetry reconnects what has become separated.
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Whenever the intensity of looking reaches a certain degree, one becomes aware of an equally intense energy coming towards one through the appearance of whatever it is one is scrutinizing.
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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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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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The power of the glamorous resides in their supposed happiness: the power of the bureaucrat in his supposed authority.
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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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I use charcoal a lot. Partly because it has such a fantastic range but also because it is very easy to erase.
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