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To remain innocent may also be. to remain ignorant.

John Berger

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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Envy Herself Imagine Justify Loving Menat Object Other Product Transform
For the artist, drawing is discovery. And that is not just a slick phrase; it is quite literally true.
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Artist Discovery Drawing Literally Phrase Slick True
Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak.
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Children Looks Speak Recognize Word
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.
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Capitalism Culture Dream Publicity Same Time
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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Allow Artist Certain Colour Comparitively Dominate Easy Mute Together Unity
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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Almost Being Certainly Certainty Need Painting Pianist Something
Post-modernism has cut off the present from all futures. The daily media add to this by cutting off the past. Which means that critical opinion is often orphaned in the present.
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Add All Cutting Daily Future Mean Media Modernism Past Presently
Hair is associated with sexual power. With passion.
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Associate Hair Need Passion Sexual
The human imagination… has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist practice or philosophy.
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Confine Difficulty Dog Dream Human Imagination Live Materialist Philosophy Practice Strict
What any true painting touches is an absence – an absence of which without the painting, we might be unaware. And that would be our loss.
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Absence Loss might Paint Painting Touch True Unaware
Without ethics man has no future. This is to say mankind without them cannot be itself.
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Choices Ethics Future Itself Mankind Men Priorities
You are observed with interest but you do not observe with interest – if you do, you will become less enviable. In this respect the envied are like bureaucrats; the more impersonal they are, the greater the illusion (for themselves and for others) of their power.
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Bureaucrat Greater Illusion Impersonal Interest Observe Others Power Themselves
The woman’s sexual passion needs to be minimized, so that the spectator may feel that he has the monopoly on such passion
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Feel May Minimize Monopoly Need Passion Sexual Spectator Such Women
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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Abstract Actual Cynical Disillusioned Doctor Fundamental Idealism Knowing Life Precise Reason Treat
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
That we find a crystal or a poppy beautiful means that we are less alone, that we are more deeply inserted into existence than the course of a single life would lead us to believe.
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Alone Beautiful Believe Crystal Deeply Existence Less More Nature Ours Poppy

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