To be naked is to be oneself.
JOHN BERGERFor me, drawing is a lot to do with taking out, with returning to the white of the paper.
More John Berger Quotes
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You cant draw it for others. You can try, of course, but it doesn’t work. People obeying rules laid down my somebody else is not the same thing as respecting life. And if you want to respect life, you have to draw a line.
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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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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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It is comparatively easy to achieve a certain unity in a picture by allowing one colour to dominate, or by muting all the colours.
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We only see what we look at. To look is an act of choice.
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Every city has a sex and an age which have nothing to do with demography. Rome is feminine. So is Odessa. London is a teenager, an urchin, and, in this, hasn’t changed since the time of Dickens. Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.
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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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We can become anything. That is why injustice is impossible here. There may be the accident of birth, there is no accident of death. Nothing forces us to remain what we were.
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The heart of Paris is like nothing so much as the unending interior of a house.
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All photographs are there to remind us of what we forget. In this – as in other ways – they are the opposite of paintings.
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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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Ours is the century of enforced travel of disappearances.
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Those who first invented and then named the constellations were storytellers.
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The zoo cannot but disappoint.
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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.
JOHN BERGER