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It is comparatively easy to achieve a certain unity in a picture by allowing one colour to dominate, or by muting all the colours.
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This was once achieved by extensive deprivation. Today in the developed countries it is being achieved by imposing a false standard of what is and what is not desirable.
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She is meant to imagine herself transformed by the product into an object of envy for others, an envy which will then justify her loving herself.
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A peasant becomes fond of his pig and is glad to salt away its pork.
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Pleasure and pain need to be considered together; they are inseparable. Yet the space filled by each is perhaps different. Pleasure, defined as a sense of gratification, is essential for nature
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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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As Nelson Mandela has pointed out, boycott is not a principle, it is a tactic depending upon circumstances.
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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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Traditional Chinese art looked at the Earth from a Confucian mountain top;
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Nakedness reveals itself. Nudity is placed on display. The nude is condemned to never being naked. Nudity is a form of dress.
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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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All photographs are there to remind us of what we forget. In this – as in other ways – they are the opposite of paintings.
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