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«Unlike any other visual image, a photograph is not a rendering, an imitation or an interpretation of its subject, but actually a trace of it. No painting or drawing, however naturalist, belongs to its subject in the way that a photograph does.»
Author: John Berger
(Painter)
| Keywords:
drawing, imitation, interpretation, naturalist, naturalists, rendering, trace, unlike, visual, visual image
«To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.»
Author: Jean Baudrillard
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absorb, black light, circle around, dispossess, dispossessed, dispossessing, drag, isolate, murderous, trace, wipe, wipe out
«There is not any present moment that is unconnected with some future one. The life of every man is a continued chain of incidents, each link of which hangs upon the former. The transition from cause to effect, from event to event, is often carried on by secret steps, which our foresight cannot divine, and our sagacity is unable to trace. Evil may at some future period bring forth good; and good may bring forth evil, both equally unexpected.»
Author: Joseph Addison
(Dramatist, Essayist, Poet, Statesman)
| Keywords:
bring forth, continued, hangs, incident, incidents, link, sagacity, trace, transition, unconnected
«The ultimate aim of psychoanalysis is to attribute art to mental weakness, and then to trace the weakness back to the point where, according to analytic dogma, it originated -- namely, the lavatory.»
Author: Karl Kraus
(Critic, Journalist, Playwright, Poet)
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analytic, attribute, dogma, lavatories, lavatory, namely, originated, psychoanalysis, to the point, trace
«The weakest living creature, by concentrating his powers on a single object, can accomplish good results while the strongest, by dispersing his effort over many chores, may fail to accomplish anything. Drops of water, by continually falling, hone their passage through the hardest of rocks but the hasty torrent rushes over it with hideous uproar and leaves no trace behind.»
Author: Og Mandino
(Essayist, Psychologist)
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chore, concentrating, dispersing, drops, fall behind, Hard rock, hasty, hideous, hone, honed, honing, Leave No Trace, passage, rocks, rushes, trace, uproar, weakest
«The ordinary novel would trace the history of the diamond - but I say, `Diamond, what! This is carbon.' And my diamond may be coal or soot and my theme is carbon.»
«Well had the boding tremblers learned to trace the day's disasters in his morning face.»
«There is no prosperity, trade, art, city, or great material wealth of any kind, but if you trace it home, you will find it rooted in a thought of some individual man. -»
«There should not be any trace of dislike or distrust on the score of nationality, language, caste, economic status, scholarship, age or sex.»
«Sweet babe, in thy face Soft desires I can trace, Secret joys and secret smiles, Little pretty infant wiles»
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