I use charcoal a lot. Partly because it has such a fantastic range but also because it is very easy to erase.
JOHN BERGERThese contradictions both hide and increase the natural ambiguity of the photographic image.
More John Berger Quotes
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By contrast, a woman’s presence… defines what can and cannot be done to her.
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The zoo cannot but disappoint.
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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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Words are so often used in the opposite sense, as a screen of diversion. It’s the struggle towards truthfulness which is the same whether one is writing a poem, a novel or an argument.
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You painted a naked woman because you enjoyed looking at her, put a mirror in her hand and you called the painting “Vanity,” thus morally condemning the woman whose nakedness you had depicted for you own pleasure.
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The power of the glamorous resides in their supposed happiness: the power of the bureaucrat in his supposed authority.
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Today the discredit of words is very great.
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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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Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion.
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Every authentic poem contributes to the labor of poetry… to bring together what life has separated or violence has torn apart…
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Hair is associated with sexual power. With passion.
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You can plan events, but if they go according to your plan they are not events.
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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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To be naked is to be oneself. To be nude is to be seen naked by others and yet not recognized for oneself. A naked body has to be seen as an object in order to become a nude.
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Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak.
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