It is seeing which establishes our place in the surrounding world; we explain that world with words, but words can never undo the fact that we are surrounded by it
JOHN BERGER
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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Your lips, beloved, are like a honeycomb: honey and milk are under the tongue. And the smell of your clothes is like the smell of my home.
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The spectator-buyer is meant to envy herself as she will become if she buys the product.
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Photographs bear witness to a human choice being exercised in a given situation.
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Photography, because it stops the flow of life, is always flirting with death.
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Writers who have neither product utopian trash.
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The surveyor of woman in herself is male: the surveyed female. Thus she turns herself into an object – and most particularly an object of vision: a sight.
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If everything that existed were continually being photographed, every photograph would become meaningless.
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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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The camera relieves us of the burden of memory.
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What is to happen next will take place within the four walls of the story. And this is possible because the story’s voice makes everything its own.
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Art, when it functions like this, becomes a meeting-place of the invisible, the irreducible, the enduring, guts, and honor.
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Ever since the Greek tragedies, artists have, from time to time, asked themselves how they might influence ongoing political events.
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The happiness of being envied is glamour. Being envied is a solitary form of reassurance. It depends precisely upon not sharing your experience with those who envy you.
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Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion.
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Without ethics man has no future. This is to say mankind without them cannot be itself.
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