Compassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural.
JOHN BERGERThe essence of songs is neither vocal nor cerebral but organic.
More John Berger Quotes
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Yet nowherein a zoo can a stranger encounter the look of an animal. At the most, the animal’s gaze flickers and passes on. They look sideways. They look blindly beyond.
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These contradictions both hide and increase the natural ambiguity of the photographic image.
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That we find a crystal or a poppy beautiful means that we are less alone, that we are more deeply inserted into existence than the course of a single life would lead us to believe.
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You can plan events, but if they go according to your plan they are not events.
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A drawing is an autobiographical record of one’s discovery of an event – either seen, remembered or imagined. A ‘finished’ work is an attempt to construct an event in itself.
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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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The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.
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All creation is in the art of seeing.
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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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The stars threaded on that line were like events threaded on a narrative. Imagining the constellations did not of course change the stars, nor did it change the black emptiness that surrounds them. What it changed was the way people read the night sky.
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Buildings become furniture, courtyards become carpets and arrases, the streets are like galleries, the boulevards conservatories. It is a house, one or two centuries old, rich, bourgeois, distinguished. The only way of going out, or shutting the door behind you, is to leave the centre.
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All weddings are similar, but every marriage is different.
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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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Drawing is a way of coming upon the connection between things, just like metaphor in poetry reconnects what has become separated.
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One can say of language that it is potentially the only human home, the only dwelling place that cannot be hostile to man.
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