No painting or drawing, however naturalist, belongs to its subject in the way that a photograph does.
JOHN BERGER
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.
More John Berger Quotes
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No painting or drawing, however naturalist, belongs to its subject in the way that a photograph does.
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Advertising is not merely an assembly of competing messages; it is a language itself which is always being used to make the same general proposal
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Whenever 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.
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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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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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This determines not only most relations between men and women but also the relation of women to themselves.
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What is significant, and is so difficult for the urban stranger to understand, is that the two statements are connected by an and not by a but.
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Every authentic poem contributes to the labour of poetry… to bring together what life has separated or violence has torn apart.
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Art, when it functions like this, becomes a meeting-place of the invisible, the irreducible, the enduring, guts, and honor.
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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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What distinguished man from animals was the human capacity for symbolic thought, the capacity which was inseparable from the development of language in which words were not mere signals, but signifiers of something other than themselves.
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