Between the experience of living a normal life at this moment on the planet and the public narratives being offered to give a sense to that life, the empty space, the gap, is enormous.
JOHN BERGERPublicity 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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Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.
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The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.
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We never look at just one thing; we are always looking at the relation between things and ourselves.
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Everything became exchangeable because everything became a commodity.
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Landscapes can be deceptive. Sometimes a landscape seems to be less a setting for the life of its inhabitants than a curtain behind which their struggles, achievements and accidents takes place.
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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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In the modern world, in which thousands of people are dying every hour as a consequence of politics, no writing anywhere can begin to be credible unless it is informed by political awareness and principles.
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The impulse to paint comes neither from observation nor from the soul (which is probably blind) but from an encounter: the encounter between painter and model: even if the model is a mountain or a shelf of empty medicine bottles.
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Never chain your dogs together with sausages. One must accustom one’s self to be bored.
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Photographs bear witness to a human choice being exercised in a given situation.
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Every authentic poem contributes to the labor of poetry… to bring together what life has separated or violence has torn apart…
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If the public photograph contributes to a memory, it is to the memory of an unknowable and total stranger.
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Fanaticism comes from any form of chosen blindness accompanying the pursuit of a single dogma.
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To be naked is to be oneself. To be nude is to be seen naked by others and yet not recognized for oneself. A naked body has to be seen as an object in order to become a nude.
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The camera relieves us of the burden of memory.
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