Compare the cinema with theatre. Both are dramatic arts. Theatre brings actors before a public and every night during the season they re-enact the same drama.
JOHN BERGERThe 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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What distinguished man from animals was the human capacity for symbolic thought, the capacity which was inseparable from the development of language in which words were not mere signals, but signifiers of something other than themselves.
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Every authentic poem contributes to the labour of poetry… to bring together what life has separated or violence has torn apart.
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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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A drawing is an autobiographical record of one’s discovery of an event – either seen, remembered or imagined. A ‘finished’ work is an attempt to construct an event in itself.
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The century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to them, disappear over the horizon.
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These contradictions both hide and increase the natural ambiguity of the photographic image.
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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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The strange power of art is sometimes it can show that what people have in common is more urgent than what differentiates them. It seems to me it’s something that theatre can do, but it’s rare; it’s very rare.
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My heart born naked was swaddled in lullabies.
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Every authentic poem contributes to the labor of poetry… to bring together what life has separated or violence has torn apart…
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Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion.
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One can say of language that it is potentially the only human home, the only dwelling place that cannot be hostile to man.
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The contradiction in perspective was that it structured all images of reality to address a single spectator who, unlike God, could only be in one place at a time.
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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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Fanaticism comes from any form of chosen blindness accompanying the pursuit of a single dogma.
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