Tracing an imaginary line between a cluster of stars gave them an image and an identity.
JOHN BERGERTo remain innocent may also be. to remain ignorant.
More John Berger Quotes
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One of the fundamental reasons why so many doctors become cynical and disillusioned is precisely because, when the abstract idealism has worn thin, they are uncertain about the value of the actual lives of the patients they are treating.
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When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls.
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Landscapes can be deceptive. Sometimes a landscape seems to be less a setting for the life of its inhabitants than a curtain behind which their struggles, achievements and accidents takes place.
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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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For those who are behind the curtain, landmarks are no longer only geographic but also biographical and personal
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What do drawings mean to me? I really don’t know. The activity absorbs me. I forget everything else in a way that I don’t think happens with any other activity.
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Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity.
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Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time has become Death triumphant over all.
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Yet the first symbols were animals. What distinguished men from animals was born of their relationship with them.
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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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Between the experience of living a normal life at this moment on the planet and the public narratives being offered to give a sense to that life, the empty space, the gap, is enormous.
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Post-modernism has cut off the present from all futures. The daily media add to this by cutting off the past. Which means that critical opinion is often orphaned in the present.
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She is meant to imagine herself transformed by the product into an object of envy for others, an envy which will then justify her loving herself.
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The impulse to paint comes neither from observation nor from the soul (which is probably blind) but from an encounter: the encounter between painter and model: even if the model is a mountain or a shelf of empty medicine bottles.
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Picasso drawings are like that… the Rembrandts are like that. The artist who most often did that was Van Gogh.
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