Matisse did neither. He clashed his colours together like cymbals and the effect was like a lullaby.
JOHN BERGERWhen we suffer anguish we return to early childhood because that is the period in which we first learnt to suffer the experience of total loss.
More John Berger Quotes
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When we suffer anguish we return to early childhood because that is the period in which we first learnt to suffer the experience of total loss.
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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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The animal has secrets which, unlike the secrets of caves, mountains, seas are specifically addressed to man.
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You can plan events, but if they go according to your plan they are not events.
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The relation between what we see and what we know is never settled. Each evening we see the sun set.
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The opposite of love is not to hate but to separate. If love and hate have something in common it is because, in both cases, their energy is that of bringing and holding together
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Writers who have neither product utopian trash.
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Hope is a contraband passed from hand to hand and story to story.
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Propaganda requires a permanent network of communication so that it can systematically stifle reflection with emotive or utopian slogans. Its pace is usually fast.
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What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time.
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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 woman’s sexual passion needs to be minimized, so that the spectator may feel that he has the monopoly on such passion
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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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Whenever the intensity of looking reaches a certain degree, one becomes aware of an equally intense energy coming towards one through the appearance of whatever it is one is scrutinizing.
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I can’t tell you what art does and how it does it, but I know that often art has judged the judges, pleaded revenge to the innocent and shown to the future what the past suffered, so that it has never been forgotten.
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[O]ften art has judged the judges, pleaded revenge to the innocent and shown to the future what the past suffered, so that it has never been forgotten.
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Japanese art looked closely around screens; Italian Renaissance art surveyed conquered nature through the window or door-frame of a palace.
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The heart of Paris is like nothing so much as the unending interior of a house.
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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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The human imagination… has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist practice or philosophy.
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The century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to them, disappear over the horizon.
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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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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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To be naked is to be oneself.
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To live and die amongst foreigners may seem less absurd than to live persecuted or tortured by one’s fellow countrymen….
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A photograph is a result of the photographer’s decision that it is worth recording that this particular event or this particular object has been seen. If everything that existed were continually being photographed, every photograph would become meaningless.
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