Ever since the Greek tragedies, artists have, from time to time, asked themselves how they might influence ongoing political events.
JOHN BERGERTo be desired is perhaps the closest anybody in this life can reach to feeling immortal.
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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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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Never chain your dogs together with sausages. One must accustom one’s self to be bored.
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Japanese art looked closely around screens; Italian Renaissance art surveyed conquered nature through the window or door-frame of a palace.
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My heart born naked was swaddled in lullabies.
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Fanaticism comes from any form of chosen blindness accompanying the pursuit of a single dogma.
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For me, drawing is a lot to do with taking out, with returning to the white of the paper.
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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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The heart of Paris is like nothing so much as the unending interior of a house.
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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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It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open.
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Ours is the century of enforced travel of disappearances.
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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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The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.
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We never look at just one thing; we are always looking at the relation between things and ourselves.
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