A peasant becomes fond of his pig and is glad to salt away its pork.
JOHN BERGERTraditional Chinese art looked at the Earth from a Confucian mountain top;
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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 camera relieves us of the burden of memory.
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The essence of songs is neither vocal nor cerebral but organic.
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Writers who have neither product utopian trash.
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The past is the one thing we are not prisoners of. We can do with the past exactly what we wish. What we can’t do is to change its consequences.
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That we find a crystal or a poppy beautiful means that we are less alone, that we are more deeply inserted into existence than the course of a single life would lead us to believe.
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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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(The sight of it as an object stimulates the use of it as an object.) Nakedness reveals itself. Nudity is placed on display. To be naked is to be without disguises.
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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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As Nelson Mandela has pointed out, boycott is not a principle, it is a tactic depending upon circumstances.
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I wanted to write about looking at the world, so it’s more about helping people, or persuading people, to see what is around us; both the marvellous and the terrible.
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The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich.
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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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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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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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