For those who are behind the curtain, landmarks are no longer only geographic but also biographical and personal
JOHN BERGERI use charcoal a lot. Partly because it has such a fantastic range but also because it is very easy to erase.
More John Berger Quotes
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To remain innocent may also be. to remain ignorant.
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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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Whenever he looked he saw the labour of existence; and this labour, recognised as such, was what constituted reality for him. (On Vincent Van Gogh)
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Nothing in the nature around us is evil. This needs to be repeated since one of the human ways of talking oneself into inhuman acts is to cite the supposed cruelty of nature.
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This was once achieved by extensive deprivation. Today in the developed countries it is being achieved by imposing a false standard of what is and what is not desirable.
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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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Compassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural.
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Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.
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At times failure is very necessary for the artist. It reminds him that failure is not the ultimate disaster. And this reminder liberates him from the mean fussing of perfectionism.
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For the Cro-Magnons, space is a metaphysical arena of continually intermittent appearances and disappearances.
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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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The publicity image steals her love of herself as she is, and offers it back to her for the price of the product.
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The past is the one thing we are not prisoners of. We can do with the past exactly what we wish. What we can’t do is to change its consequences.
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I wanted to write about looking at the world, so it’s more about helping people, or persuading people, to see what is around us; both the marvellous and the terrible.
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To be desired is perhaps the closest anybody in this life can reach to feeling immortal.
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