For me, drawing is a lot to do with taking out, with returning to the white of the paper.
JOHN BERGERTo be desired is perhaps the closest anybody in this life can reach to feeling immortal.
More John Berger Quotes
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Ever since the Greek tragedies, artists have, from time to time, asked themselves how they might influence ongoing political events.
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All creation is in the art of seeing.
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If everything that existed were continually being photographed, every photograph would become meaningless.
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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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We never look at just one thing; we are always looking at the relation between things and ourselves.
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These contradictions both hide and increase the natural ambiguity of the photographic image.
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Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.
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A cigarette is a breathing space. It makes a parenthesis.
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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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It is comparatively easy to achieve a certain unity in a picture by allowing one colour to dominate, or by muting all the colours.
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Capitalism survives by forcing the majority, whom it exploits, to define their own interests as narrowly as possible.
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In the average European oil painting of the nude the principal protagonist is never painted. He is the spectator in front of the picture and he is presumed to be a man.
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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.
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Ours is the century of enforced travel of disappearances.
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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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