Photography, because it stops the flow of life, is always flirting with death.
JOHN BERGERTraditional Chinese art looked at the Earth from a Confucian mountain top;
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The camera relieves us of the burden of memory.
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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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For the artist, drawing is discovery. And that is not just a slick phrase; it is quite literally true.
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Never again shall a single story be told as though it were the only one.
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Ethics determine choices and actions and suggest difficult priorities.
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Writers who have neither product utopian trash.
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Traditional Chinese art looked at the Earth from a Confucian mountain top;
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The essence of songs is neither vocal nor cerebral but organic.
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When we suffer anguish we return to early childhood because that is the period in which we first learnt to suffer the experience of total loss.
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Later alone it wore poems for clothes. Like a shirt I carried on my back the poetry I had read. So I lived for half a century until wordlessly we met. From my shirt on the back of the chair I learn tonight how many years of learning by heart I waited for you.
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We never look at just one thing; we are always looking at the relation between things and ourselves.
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We who draw do so not only to make something observed visible to others, but also to accompany something invisible to its incalculable destination
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The century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to them, disappear over the horizon.
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We know that the earth is turning away from it. Yet the knowledge, the explanation, never quite fits the sight.
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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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