Photography, because it stops the flow of life, is always flirting with death.
JOHN BERGERWhat is significant, and is so difficult for the urban stranger to understand, is that the two statements are connected by an and not by a but.
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When we suffer anguish we return to early childhood because that is the period in which we first learnt to suffer the experience of total loss.
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In the average European oil painting of the nude the principal protagonist is never painted. He is the spectator in front of the picture and he is presumed to be a man.
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A man’s presence suggests what he is capable of doing to you or for you.
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Every authentic poem contributes to the labour of poetry… to bring together what life has separated or violence has torn apart.
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Japanese art looked closely around screens; Italian Renaissance art surveyed conquered nature through the window or door-frame of a palace.
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For those who are behind the curtain, landmarks are no longer only geographic but also biographical and personal
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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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The power of the glamorous resides in their supposed happiness: the power of the bureaucrat in his supposed authority.
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Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak.
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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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To be naked is to be oneself.
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Matisse did neither. He clashed his colours together like cymbals and the effect was like a lullaby.
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The publicity image steals her love of herself as she is, and offers it back to her for the price of the product.
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You can plan events, but if they go according to your plan they are not events.
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The time of a cigarette is a parenthesis, and if it is shared, you are both in that parenthesis. Its like a proscenium arch for a dialogue.
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