At times failure is very necessary for the artist. It reminds him that failure is not the ultimate disaster. And this reminder liberates him from the mean fussing of perfectionism.
JOHN BERGERThe publicity image steals her love of herself as she is, and offers it back to her for the price of the product.
More John Berger Quotes
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Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion.
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To be desired is perhaps the closest anybody in this life can reach to feeling immortal.
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This was once achieved by extensive deprivation. Today in the developed countries it is being achieved by imposing a false standard of what is and what is not desirable.
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The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.
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Photography, because it stops the flow of life, is always flirting with death.
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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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What is to happen next will take place within the four walls of the story. And this is possible because the story’s voice makes everything its own.
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Compare the cinema with theatre. Both are dramatic arts. Theatre brings actors before a public and every night during the season they re-enact the same drama.
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Without ethics man has no future. This is to say mankind without them cannot be itself.
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Capitalism survives by forcing the majority, whom it exploits, to define their own interests as narrowly as possible.
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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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All creation is in the art of seeing.
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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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Nothing fortuitous happens in a child’s world. There are no accidents. Everything is connected with everything else and everything can be explained by everything else. . . . For a young child everything that happens is a necessity.
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Paintings record what the painter remembers. Because each one of us forgets different things, a photo more than a painting may change its meaning according to who is looking at it.
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