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Источник: Ways of Seeing (1972)
Контексте: According to usage and conventions which are at last being questioned but have by no means been overcome, the social presence of a woman is different in kind from that of a man... A man's presence suggests what he is capable of doing to you or for you... By contrast, a woman's presence expresses her own attitude to herself, and defines what can and cannot be done to her. (p. 45-46)

“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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John Berger книга Искусство видеть

Источник: Ways of Seeing

“When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls. What is to happen next will take place within the four walls of the story. And this is possible because the story's voice makes everything its own.”

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John Berger (1926–2017) British painter, writer and art critic

Источник: Keeping a Rendezvous

“The relation between what we see and what we know is never settled. Each evening we see the sun set. We know that the earth is turning away from it. Yet the knowledge, the explanation, never quite fits the sight.”

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John Berger книга Искусство видеть

Источник: Ways of Seeing (1972)

“Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.”

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John Berger (1926–2017) British painter, writer and art critic

“Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.”

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John Berger (1926–2017) British painter, writer and art critic

“I assert that the art of sculpture, among all the arts connected with design, is at least seven times greater than any other, for the following reason: why, sir, a statue of true sculpture ought to have seven points of view, which ought all to boast equal excellence.”

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Benvenuto Cellini (1500–1571) Florentine sculptor and goldsmith

Dico, che l'arte della Scultura infra tutte l'arte, che s'interviene disegno, è maggiore sette volte, perchè una statua di Scultura deve avere otto vedute, e conviene che la sieno tutte di egual bontà.
Letter to Benedetto Varchi, January 28, 1546, cited from G. P. Carpani (ed.) Vita di Benvenuto Cellini (Milano: Nicolo Bettoni, 1821) vol. 3, p. 183; translation from Thomas Nugent (trans.) The Life of Benvenuto Cellini, a Florentine Artist (London: Hunt and Clarke, 1828) vol. 2, p. 264.

“I said, in response to his words, that men who wanted to do things in their own way had better make a world in their own way, because in this world things are not done like this.”

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Benvenuto Cellini (1500–1571) Florentine sculptor and goldsmith

Dissi, a quelle parole, che gli uomini che volevan fare a lor modo, bisognava che si facessino un mondo a lor modo, perché in questo non si usava cosí.
Autobiography, vol. 1, ch. 79 (1558-66); translation from Benvenuto Cellini (trans. Julia Conaway Bondanella and Peter Bondanella) My Life (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002) p. 132.

“All works of nature created by God in heaven and on earth are works of sculpture.”

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Benvenuto Cellini (1500–1571) Florentine sculptor and goldsmith

Tutte le opera, che si veggono fatte dallo Iddio della Natura in cielo ed in terra, sono tutte di Scultura.
Treatise on Sculpture (1564), opening words, cited from G. P. Carpani (ed.) Vita di Benvenuto Cellini (Milano: Nicolo Bettoni, 1821) vol. 3, p. 199; translation from Jean Paul Richter (ed.) The Literary Works of Leonardo da Vinci (London: Phaidon, 1970) vol. 1, p. 90.

“I own it is a common saying, that every reverse of fortune teaches us how to behave on another occasion; but that is not true, as the circumstances which attend each event are different, and such as could not be foreseen.”

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Benvenuto Cellini (1500–1571) Florentine sculptor and goldsmith

http://books.google.com/books?id=FnAEAAAAYAAJ&q=%22I+own+it+is+a+common+saying+that+every+reverse+of+fortune+teaches+us+how+to+behave+on+another+occasion+but+that+is+not+true+as+the+circumstances+which+attend+each+event+are+different+and+such+as+could+not+be+foreseen%22&pg=PA321#v=onepage
Gli è ben vero che si dice Tu imparerai per un'altra volta: questo non vale perchè la vien sempre con modi diversi e non mai immaginati.
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Autobiography, vol. 2, ch. 9

“Painting, in fact, is nothing else much than a tree, a man, or any other object, reflected in the water. The distinction between sculpture and painting, is as great as between the shadow and the substance.”

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Benvenuto Cellini (1500–1571) Florentine sculptor and goldsmith

La Pittura non è altro, che o albero o uomo o altra cosa, che si specchi in un fonte. La differenza, che è dalla Scultura alla Pittura è tanta, quanto è dalla ombra e la cosa, che fa l'ombra.
Letter to Benedetto Varchi, January 28, 1546, cited from G. P. Carpani (ed.) Vita di Benvenuto Cellini (Milano: Nicolo Bettoni, 1821) vol. 3, p. 185; translation from Thomas Nugent (trans.) The Life of Benvenuto Cellini, a Florentine Artist (London: Hunt and Clarke, 1828) vol. 2, p. 265.

“When the poor give to the rich, the devil laughs.”

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Benvenuto Cellini (1500–1571) Florentine sculptor and goldsmith

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Quando il povero dona al ricco il Diavolo se ne ride?
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Autobiography, vol. 1, ch. 4

„Считать метафору доказательством, поток праздных слов источником истины, а себя оракулом — это заблуждение, свойственное всем нам.“

Поль Валери (1871–1945) французский поэт, эссеист, философ

„Господь создал все из ничего, но материал все время чувствуется.“

Поль Валери (1871–1945) французский поэт, эссеист, философ

Вариант: Господь сотворил всё из ничего. Но материал всё время чувствуется.
Источник: Источник: http://www.zitata.eu/valery.shtml[12, 10, 2011]

„Наука — это истина, помноженная на сомнение.“

Поль Валери (1871–1945) французский поэт, эссеист, философ