You can plan events, but if they go according to your plan they are not events.
JOHN BERGERPost-modernism has cut off the present from all futures. The daily media add to this by cutting off the past. Which means that critical opinion is often orphaned in the present.
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Tracing an imaginary line between a cluster of stars gave them an image and an identity.
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The unsung, impersonal world remains outside, on the other surface of a placenta. All songs, even when their content or rendering is strongly masculine, operate maternally.
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When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls.
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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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All weddings are similar, but every marriage is different.
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What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time.
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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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The opposite of love is not to hate but to separate. If love and hate have something in common it is because, in both cases, their energy is that of bringing and holding together
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Everything in life, is a question of drawing a life, John, and you have to decide for yourself where to draw it.
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Every painted image of something is also about the absence of the real thing. All painting is about the presence of absence.
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Picasso drawings are like that… the Rembrandts are like that. The artist who most often did that was Van Gogh.
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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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The zoo cannot but disappoint. The public purpose of zoos is to offer visitors the opportunity of looking at animals.
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Oil painting did to appearances what capital did to social relations. It reduced everything to the equality of objects.
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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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