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.
JOHN BERGERAdvertising is not merely an assembly of competing messages; it is a language itself which is always being used to make the same general proposal
More John Berger Quotes
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For me, drawing is a lot to do with taking out, with returning to the white of the paper.
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Hair is associated with sexual power. With passion.
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The camera relieves us of the burden of memory. It surveys us like God, and it surveys for us. Yet no other god has been so cynical, for the camera records in order to forget.
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The happiness of being envied is glamour. Being envied is a solitary form of reassurance. It depends precisely upon not sharing your experience with those who envy you.
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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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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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Traditional Chinese art looked at the Earth from a Confucian mountain top;
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The heart of Paris is like nothing so much as the unending interior of a house.
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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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Landscapes can be deceptive. Sometimes a landscape seems to be less a setting for the life of its inhabitants than a curtain behind which their struggles, achievements and accidents takes place.
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If every event which occurred could be given a name, there would be no need for stories.
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You are observed with interest but you do not observe with interest – if you do, you will become less enviable. In this respect the envied are like bureaucrats; the more impersonal they are, the greater the illusion (for themselves and for others) of their power.
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Tracing an imaginary line between a cluster of stars gave them an image and an identity.
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Ours is the century of enforced travel of disappearances.
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Yet the first symbols were animals. What distinguished men from animals was born of their relationship with them.
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