There’s the artist’s intimacy and truthfulness to himself, but an equal intimacy to the Other [the one drawn].
JOHN BERGER
Painting is something that you need to do, if not every day, then certainly most days. It is almost like being a pianist: if you stop, you lose something.
More John Berger Quotes
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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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Ethics determine choices and actions and suggest difficult priorities.
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If the public photograph contributes to a memory, it is to the memory of an unknowable and total stranger.
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That we find a crystal or a poppy beautiful means that we are less alone, that we are more deeply inserted into existence than the course of a single life would lead us to believe.
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A cigarette is a breathing space. It makes a parenthesis.
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It is not usually possible in a poem or a story to make the relationship between particular and universal fully explicit. Those who try to do so end up writing parables.
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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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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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Today the discredit of words is very great.
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What do drawings mean to me? I really don’t know. The activity absorbs me. I forget everything else in a way that I don’t think happens with any other activity.
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Matisse did neither. He clashed his colours together like cymbals and the effect was like a lullaby.
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The spectator-buyer is meant to envy herself as she will become if she buys the product.
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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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