For me, drawing is a lot to do with taking out, with returning to the white of the paper.
JOHN BERGEREverything became exchangeable because everything became a commodity.
More John Berger Quotes
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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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Emigration, forced or chosen, across national frontiers or from village to metropolis, is the quintessential experience of our time.
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Without ethics man has no future. This is to say mankind without them cannot be itself.
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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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To be naked is to be oneself.
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Everything became exchangeable because everything became a commodity.
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The camera relieves us of the burden of memory.
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Japanese art looked closely around screens; Italian Renaissance art surveyed conquered nature through the window or door-frame of a palace.
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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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That we find a crystal or a poppy beautiful means that we are less alone, that we are more deeply inserted into existence than the course of a single life would lead us to believe.
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Compassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural.
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Do you know the legend about cicadas? They say they are the souls of poets who cannot keep quiet because, when they were alive, they never wrote the poems they wanted to.
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History always constitutes the relation between a present and its past. Consequently fear of the present leads to mystification of the past
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Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.
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Nothing in the nature around us is evil. This needs to be repeated since one of the human ways of talking oneself into inhuman acts is to cite the supposed cruelty of nature.
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