These contradictions both hide and increase the natural ambiguity of the photographic image.
JOHN BERGERFor the Cro-Magnons, space is a metaphysical arena of continually intermittent appearances and disappearances.
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Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion.
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Ours is the century of enforced travel of disappearances.
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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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[O]ften art has judged the judges, pleaded revenge to the innocent and shown to the future what the past suffered, so that it has never been forgotten.
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Hair is associated with sexual power. With passion.
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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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You cant draw it for others. You can try, of course, but it doesn’t work. People obeying rules laid down my somebody else is not the same thing as respecting life. And if you want to respect life, you have to draw a line.
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No painting or drawing, however naturalist, belongs to its subject in the way that a photograph does.
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It can happen that a book, unlike its authors, grows younger as the years pass.
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To be desired is perhaps the closest anybody in this life can reach to feeling immortal.
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Photography, because it stops the flow of life, is always flirting with death.
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Buildings become furniture, courtyards become carpets and arrases, the streets are like galleries, the boulevards conservatories. It is a house, one or two centuries old, rich, bourgeois, distinguished. The only way of going out, or shutting the door behind you, is to leave the centre.
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Propaganda requires a permanent network of communication so that it can systematically stifle reflection with emotive or utopian slogans. Its pace is usually fast.
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For the Cro-Magnons, space is a metaphysical arena of continually intermittent appearances and disappearances.
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Fanaticism comes from any form of chosen blindness accompanying the pursuit of a single dogma.
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