I can’t tell you what art does and how it does it, but I know that often art has judged the judges, pleaded revenge to the innocent and shown to the future what the past suffered, so that it has never been forgotten.
JOHN BERGER
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.
More John Berger Quotes
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I can’t tell you what art does and how it does it, but I know that often art has judged the judges, pleaded revenge to the innocent and shown to the future what the past suffered, so that it has never been forgotten.
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Ours is the century of enforced travel of disappearances.
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A tactic which allows people, as distinct from their elected but often craven governments, to apply a certain pressure on those wielding power in what they, the boycotters, consider to be an unjust or immoral way.
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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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All publicity works upon anxiety.
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Yet the first symbols were animals. What distinguished men from animals was born of their relationship with them.
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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 painted a naked woman because you enjoyed looking at her, put a mirror in her hand and you called the painting “Vanity,” thus morally condemning the woman whose nakedness you had depicted for you own pleasure.
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A drawing is essentially a private work, related only to the artist’s own needs; a ‘finished’ statue or canvas is essentially a public, presented work – related far more directly to the demands of communication.
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Today the discredit of words is very great.
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A cigarette is a breathing space. It makes a parenthesis.
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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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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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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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Hope is a contraband passed from hand to hand and story to story.
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