If every event which occurred could be given a name, there would be no need for stories.
JOHN BERGERFor me, drawing is a lot to do with taking out, with returning to the white of the paper.
More John Berger Quotes
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Do you know the legend about cicadas? They say they are the souls of poets who cannot keep quiet because, when they were alive, they never wrote the poems they wanted to.
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Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.
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Nothing fortuitous happens in a child’s world. There are no accidents. Everything is connected with everything else and everything can be explained by everything else. . . . For a young child everything that happens is a necessity.
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The essence of songs is neither vocal nor cerebral but organic.
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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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Your lips, beloved, are like a honeycomb: honey and milk are under the tongue. And the smell of your clothes is like the smell of my home.
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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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The spectator-buyer is meant to envy herself as she will become if she buys the product.
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All photographs are there to remind us of what we forget. In this – as in other ways – they are the opposite of paintings.
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The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.
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The human imagination… has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist practice or philosophy.
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Those who first invented and then named the constellations were storytellers.
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If the public photograph contributes to a memory, it is to the memory of an unknowable and total stranger.
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This is not because they are callous or personally inhuman: it is because they live in and accept a society which is incapable of knowing what a human life is worth.
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All creation is in the art of seeing.
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