When he painted a road, the roadmakers were there in his imagination, when he painted the turned earth of a ploughed field, the gesture of the blade turning the earth was included in his own act.
JOHN BERGERWriters who have neither product utopian trash.
More John Berger Quotes
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When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls.
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She is meant to imagine herself transformed by the product into an object of envy for others, an envy which will then justify her loving herself.
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What any true painting touches is an absence – an absence of which without the painting, we might be unaware. And that would be our loss.
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Post-modernism has cut off the present from all futures. The daily media add to this by cutting off the past. Which means that critical opinion is often orphaned in the present.
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The unsung, impersonal world remains outside, on the other surface of a placenta. All songs, even when their content or rendering is strongly masculine, operate maternally.
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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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The camera relieves us of the burden of memory.
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It can happen that a book, unlike its authors, grows younger as the years pass.
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To be naked is to be oneself. To be nude is to be seen naked by others and yet not recognized for oneself. A naked body has to be seen as an object in order to become a nude.
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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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To remain innocent may also be. to remain ignorant.
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The zoo cannot but disappoint. The public purpose of zoos is to offer visitors the opportunity of looking at animals.
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To be naked is to be 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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For the artist, drawing is discovery. And that is not just a slick phrase; it is quite literally true.
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