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The power of the glamorous resides in their supposed happiness: the power of the bureaucrat in his supposed authority.

John Berger

A peasant becomes fond of his pig and is glad to salt away its pork.
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Animal Away Become Fond Glad Peasant Pig Pigs Pork Two
There’s the artist’s intimacy and truthfulness to himself, but an equal intimacy to the Other [the one drawn].
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Artist Drawing Drawn Equal Intimacy Other Truthfulness
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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Achievement Behind Deceptive Landscape Life Seem Setting Sometimes Struggle Success
The extreme proposition on which Giacometti based all his mature work was that no reality… could ever be shared. This is why he believed it impossible for a work to be finished. This is why the content of any work is not the nature of the figure or head portrayed but the incomplete history of him staring at it.
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Bases Extreme Finishing Giacometti History Impossible Incomplete Portrayed Proposition Reality Share Staring
The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich.
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Before Century Poverty Priorities Result Scarcity Set World
Hair is associated with sexual power. With passion.
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Associate Hair Need Passion Sexual
I can’t tell you what art does and how it does it, but I know that often 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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Art Can Forgotten Innocent Judge Know Past Revenge Show
The camera relieves us of the burden of memory.
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Burden Camera Memories Photography Recieve
Poetry can repair no loss, but it defies the space which separates. And it does this by its continual labor of reassembling what has been scattered.
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Continual Define Poetry Reassembking Repair Scattered Separate Space
Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.
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Believe City Country Love Man Men Older Twenties Woman
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
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
What is saved in the cinema when it achieves art is a spontaneous continuity with all mankind.
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Achieve All Art Cinema Mankind People Save Sky Spontaneous
Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time has become Death triumphant over all.
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Character Death Modern Notion Spectular Time Transferred
Never again shall a single story be told as though it were the only one.
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Again never One Shall Single Stories Story Told
I wanted to write about looking at the world, so it’s more about helping people, or persuading people, to see what is around us; both the marvellous and the terrible.
JOHN BERGER

Around Help Look Marvelous People See Terrible Want World Writing

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