Hair is associated with sexual power. With passion.
JOHN BERGERWhat is saved in the cinema when it achieves art is a spontaneous continuity with all mankind.
More John Berger Quotes
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Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion.
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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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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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Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak.
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Everything in life, is a question of drawing a life, John, and you have to decide for yourself where to draw it.
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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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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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Ever since the Greek tragedies, artists have, from time to time, asked themselves how they might influence ongoing political events.
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We who draw do so not only to make something observed visible to others, but also to accompany something invisible to its incalculable destination
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Emigration, forced or chosen, across national frontiers or from village to metropolis, is the quintessential experience of our time.
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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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A photograph is a meeting place where the interests of the photographer, the photographed, the viewer and those who are using the photograph are often contradictory.
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Those who first invented and then named the constellations were storytellers.
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Oil painting did to appearances what capital did to social relations. It reduced everything to the equality of objects.
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The century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to them, disappear over the horizon.
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