I use charcoal a lot. Partly because it has such a fantastic range but also because it is very easy to erase.
JOHN BERGERWhat makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time.
More John Berger Quotes
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What do drawings mean to me? I really don’t know. The activity absorbs me. I forget everything else in a way that I don’t think happens with any other activity.
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There’s the artist’s intimacy and truthfulness to himself, but an equal intimacy to the Other [the one drawn].
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To be naked is to be oneself. To be nude is to be seen naked by others and yet not recognised for oneself.
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Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity.
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A cigarette is a breathing space. It makes a parenthesis.
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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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Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.
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A man’s presence suggests what he is capable of doing to you or for you.
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History always constitutes the relation between a present and its past. Consequently fear of the present leads to mystification of the past
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Advertising is not merely an assembly of competing messages; it is a language itself which is always being used to make the same general proposal
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Hair is associated with sexual power. With passion.
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Ethics determine choices and actions and suggest difficult priorities.
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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 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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Between the experience of living a normal life at this moment on the planet and the public narratives being offered to give a sense to that life, the empty space, the gap, is enormous.
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