For the Cro-Magnons, space is a metaphysical arena of continually intermittent appearances and disappearances.
JOHN BERGERTraditional Chinese art looked at the Earth from a Confucian mountain top;
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This is not because they are callous or personally inhuman: it is because they live in and accept a society which is incapable of knowing what a human life is worth.
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The century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to them, disappear over the horizon.
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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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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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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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Painting is something that you need to do, if not every day, then certainly most days. It is almost like being a pianist: if you stop, you lose something.
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In the average European oil painting of the nude the principal protagonist is never painted. He is the spectator in front of the picture and he is presumed to be a man.
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Writers who have neither product utopian trash.
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Matisse did neither. He clashed his colours together like cymbals and the effect was like a lullaby.
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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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The relation between what we see and what we know is never settled. Each evening we see the sun set.
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The heart of Paris is like nothing so much as the unending interior of a house.
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This determines not only most relations between men and women but also the relation of women to themselves.
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Propaganda requires a permanent network of communication so that it can systematically stifle reflection with emotive or utopian slogans. Its pace is usually fast.
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For me, drawing is a lot to do with taking out, with returning to the white of the paper.
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