Never chain your dogs together with sausages. One must accustom one’s self to be bored.
JOHN BERGERThese contradictions both hide and increase the natural ambiguity of the photographic image.
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All publicity works upon anxiety.
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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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Nothing in the nature around us is evil. This needs to be repeated since one of the human ways of talking oneself into inhuman acts is to cite the supposed cruelty of nature.
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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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These contradictions both hide and increase the natural ambiguity of the photographic image.
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Unlike any other visual image, a photograph is not a rendering, an imitation or an interpretation of its subject, but actually a trace of it.
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A man’s presence suggests what he is capable of doing to you or for you.
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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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(The sight of it as an object stimulates the use of it as an object.) Nakedness reveals itself. Nudity is placed on display. To be naked is to be without disguises.
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Tracing an imaginary line between a cluster of stars gave them an image and an identity.
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Ethics determine choices and actions and suggest difficult priorities.
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Yet nowherein a zoo can a stranger encounter the look of an animal. At the most, the animal’s gaze flickers and passes on. They look sideways. They look blindly beyond.
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If every event which occurred could be given a name, there would be no need for stories.
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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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