Matisse did neither. He clashed his colours together like cymbals and the effect was like a lullaby.
JOHN BERGER
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.
More John Berger Quotes
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Matisse did neither. He clashed his colours together like cymbals and the effect was like a lullaby.
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The camera relieves us of the burden of memory.
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For the Cro-Magnons, space is a metaphysical arena of continually intermittent appearances and disappearances.
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Writers who have neither product utopian trash.
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The camera relieves us of the burden of memory. It surveys us like God, and it surveys for us. Yet no other god has been so cynical, for the camera records in order to forget.
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I wanted to write about looking at the world, so it’s more about helping people, or persuading people, to see what is around us; both the marvellous and the terrible.
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Ever since the Greek tragedies, artists have, from time to time, asked themselves how they might influence ongoing political events.
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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 animal has secrets which, unlike the secrets of caves, mountains, seas are specifically addressed to man.
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Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.
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To be naked is to be oneself.
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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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I use charcoal a lot. Partly because it has such a fantastic range but also because it is very easy to erase.
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