A cigarette is a breathing space. It makes a parenthesis.
JOHN BERGER
When he painted a road, the roadmakers were there in his imagination, when he painted the turned earth of a ploughed field, the gesture of the blade turning the earth was included in his own act.
More John Berger Quotes
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A cigarette is a breathing space. It makes a parenthesis.
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There’s the artist’s intimacy and truthfulness to himself, but an equal intimacy to the Other [the one drawn].
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Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity.
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What any true painting touches is an absence – an absence of which without the painting, we might be unaware. And that would be our loss.
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The heart of Paris is like nothing so much as the unending interior of a house.
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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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All photographs are there to remind us of what we forget. In this – as in other ways – they are the opposite of paintings.
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Ethics determine choices and actions and suggest difficult priorities.
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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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A man’s presence suggests what he is capable of doing to you or for you.
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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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When he painted a road, the roadmakers were there in his imagination, when he painted the turned earth of a ploughed field, the gesture of the blade turning the earth was included in his own act.
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All creation is in the art of seeing.
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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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Drawing is a way of coming upon the connection between things, just like metaphor in poetry reconnects what has become separated.
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