For me, drawing is a lot to do with taking out, with returning to the white of the paper.
JOHN BERGERThe past is the one thing we are not prisoners of. We can do with the past exactly what we wish. What we can’t do is to change its consequences.
More John Berger Quotes
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Never again shall a single story be told as though it were the only one.
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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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She is meant to imagine herself transformed by the product into an object of envy for others, an envy which will then justify her loving herself.
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Deep in the nature of theatre is a sense of ritual. The cinema, by contrast, transports its audience individually, singly, out of the theatre towards the unknown.
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The time of a cigarette is a parenthesis, and if it is shared, you are both in that parenthesis. Its like a proscenium arch for a dialogue.
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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 surveyor of woman in herself is male: the surveyed female. Thus she turns herself into an object – and most particularly an object of vision: a sight.
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For the artist, drawing is discovery. And that is not just a slick phrase; it is quite literally true.
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The heart of Paris is like nothing so much as the unending interior of a house.
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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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You are observed with interest but you do not observe with interest – if you do, you will become less enviable. In this respect the envied are like bureaucrats; the more impersonal they are, the greater the illusion (for themselves and for others) of their power.
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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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Everything in life, is a question of drawing a life, John, and you have to decide for yourself where to draw it.
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Today the discredit of words is very great.
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The envied are like bureaucrats; the more impersonal they are, the greater the illusion (for themselves and for others) of their power.
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