Drawing is a way of coming upon the connection between things, just like metaphor in poetry reconnects what has become separated.
JOHN BERGERTo be naked is to be oneself.
More John Berger Quotes
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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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It can happen that a book, unlike its authors, grows younger as the years pass.
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Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.
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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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Your lips, beloved, are like a honeycomb: honey and milk are under the tongue. And the smell of your clothes is like the smell of my home.
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You cant draw it for others. You can try, of course, but it doesn’t work. People obeying rules laid down my somebody else is not the same thing as respecting life. And if you want to respect life, you have to draw a line.
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Whenever he looked he saw the labour of existence; and this labour, recognised as such, was what constituted reality for him. (On Vincent Van Gogh)
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We never look at just one thing; we are always looking at the relation between things and ourselves.
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Those who first invented and then named the constellations were storytellers.
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Later alone it wore poems for clothes. Like a shirt I carried on my back the poetry I had read. So I lived for half a century until wordlessly we met. From my shirt on the back of the chair I learn tonight how many years of learning by heart I waited for you.
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We who draw do so not only to make something observed visible to others, but also to accompany something invisible to its incalculable destination
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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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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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Advertising is not merely an assembly of competing messages; it is a language itself which is always being used to make the same general proposal
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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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