Matisse did neither. He clashed his colours together like cymbals and the effect was like a lullaby.
JOHN BERGERWhen we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls.
More John Berger Quotes
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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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Art, when it functions like this, becomes a meeting-place of the invisible, the irreducible, the enduring, guts, and honor.
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This determines not only most relations between men and women but also the relation of women to themselves.
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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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Photographs bear witness to a human choice being exercised in a given situation.
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To remain innocent may also be. to remain ignorant.
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All creation is in the art of seeing.
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The century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to them, disappear over the horizon.
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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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It is not an art of the princes or the bourgeoisie. It is popular and vagrant. In the sky of the cinema people learn what they might have been and discover what belongs to them apart from their single lives.
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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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Oil painting did to appearances what capital did to social relations. It reduced everything to the equality of objects.
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The existence of pleasure is the first mystery. The existence of pain has prompted far more philosophical speculation.
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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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The contradiction in perspective was that it structured all images of reality to address a single spectator who, unlike God, could only be in one place at a time.
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