Matisse did neither. He clashed his colours together like cymbals and the effect was like a lullaby.
JOHN BERGERCompare 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.
More John Berger Quotes
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Poetry can repair no loss, but it defies the space which separates. And it does this by its continual labor of reassembling what has been scattered.
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As Nelson Mandela has pointed out, boycott is not a principle, it is a tactic depending upon circumstances.
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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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Compassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural.
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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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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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Every painted image of something is also about the absence of the real thing. All painting is about the presence of absence.
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For the Cro-Magnons, space is a metaphysical arena of continually intermittent appearances and disappearances.
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This is not because they are callous or personally inhuman: it is because they live in and accept a society which is incapable of knowing what a human life is worth.
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When he painted a road, the roadmakers were there in his imagination, when he painted the turned earth of a ploughed field, the gesture of the blade turning the earth was included in his own act.
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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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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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But toemigrate is always to dismantle the centre of the world, and so to move into a lost, disoriented one of fragments.
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When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls.
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The zoo cannot but disappoint. The public purpose of zoos is to offer visitors the opportunity of looking at animals.
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