Capitalism survives by forcing the majority, whom it exploits, to define their own interests as narrowly as possible.
JOHN BERGERThe 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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All photographs are there to remind us of what we forget. In this – as in other ways – they are the opposite of paintings.
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A tactic which allows people, as distinct from their elected but often craven governments, to apply a certain pressure on those wielding power in what they, the boycotters, consider to be an unjust or immoral way.
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Everything became exchangeable because everything became a commodity.
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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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Traditional Chinese art looked at the Earth from a Confucian mountain top;
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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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You painted a naked woman because you enjoyed looking at her, put a mirror in her hand and you called the painting “Vanity,” thus morally condemning the woman whose nakedness you had depicted for you own pleasure.
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At times failure is very necessary for the artist. It reminds him that failure is not the ultimate disaster. And this reminder liberates him from the mean fussing of perfectionism.
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The century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to them, disappear over the horizon.
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To be naked is to be oneself. To be nude is to be seen naked by others and yet not recognised for oneself.
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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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What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time.
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A photograph is a meeting place where the interests of the photographer, the photographed, the viewer and those who are using the photograph are often contradictory.
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The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.
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It is not an art of the princes or the bourgeoisie. It is popular and vagrant. In the sky of the cinema people learn what they might have been and discover what belongs to them apart from their single lives.
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