Never again shall a single story be told as though it were the only one.
JOHN BERGERA 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.
More John Berger Quotes
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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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Hair is associated with sexual power. With passion.
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All publicity works upon anxiety.
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Photographs bear witness to a human choice being exercised in a given situation.
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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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Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.
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The publicity image steals her love of herself as she is, and offers it back to her for the price of the product.
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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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This determines not only most relations between men and women but also the relation of women to themselves.
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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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We know that the earth is turning away from it. Yet the knowledge, the explanation, never quite fits the sight.
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A cigarette is a breathing space. It makes a parenthesis.
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Pleasure and pain need to be considered together; they are inseparable. Yet the space filled by each is perhaps different. Pleasure, defined as a sense of gratification, is essential for nature
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The opposite of love is not to hate but to separate. If love and hate have something in common it is because, in both cases, their energy is that of bringing and holding together
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The zoo cannot but disappoint.
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