For the artist, drawing is discovery. And that is not just a slick phrase; it is quite literally true.
JOHN BERGERWhenever the intensity of looking reaches a certain degree, one becomes aware of an equally intense energy coming towards one through the appearance of whatever it is one is scrutinizing.
More John Berger Quotes
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A peasant becomes fond of his pig and is glad to salt away its pork.
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The animal has secrets which, unlike the secrets of caves, mountains, seas are specifically addressed to man.
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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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To be naked is to be oneself. To be nude is to be seen naked by others and yet not recognised for oneself.
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Publicity is the life of this culture – in so far as without publicity capitalism could not survive – and at the same time publicity is its dream.
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Ours is the century of enforced travel of disappearances.
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To remain innocent may also be. to remain ignorant.
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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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Every authentic poem contributes to the labor of poetry… to bring together what life has separated or violence has torn apart…
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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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For me, drawing is a lot to do with taking out, with returning to the white of the paper.
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Traditional Chinese art looked at the Earth from a Confucian mountain top;
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Protest and anger practically always derives from hope, and the shouting out against injustice is always in the hope of those injustices being somewhat corrected and a little more justice established.
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Ethics determine choices and actions and suggest difficult priorities.
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The strange power of art is sometimes it can show that what people have in common is more urgent than what differentiates them. It seems to me it’s something that theatre can do, but it’s rare; it’s very rare.
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