The zoo cannot but disappoint. The public purpose of zoos is to offer visitors the opportunity of looking at animals.
JOHN BERGERWhat 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.
More John Berger Quotes
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We follow songs in order to be enclosed. We find ourselves inside a message.
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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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Oil painting did to appearances what capital did to social relations. It reduced everything to the equality of objects.
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It is not an art of the princes or the bourgeoisie. It is popular and vagrant. In the sky of the cinema people learn what they might have been and discover what belongs to them apart from their single lives.
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The extreme proposition on which Giacometti based all his mature work was that no reality… could ever be shared. This is why he believed it impossible for a work to be finished. This is why the content of any work is not the nature of the figure or head portrayed but the incomplete history of him staring at it.
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Between the experience of living a normal life at this moment on the planet and the public narratives being offered to give a sense to that life, the empty space, the gap, is enormous.
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All publicity works upon anxiety.
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To remain innocent may also be. to remain ignorant.
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All weddings are similar, but every marriage is different.
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My heart born naked was swaddled in lullabies.
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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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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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For the Cro-Magnons, space is a metaphysical arena of continually intermittent appearances and disappearances.
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The heart of Paris is like nothing so much as the unending interior of a house.
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Everything became exchangeable because everything became a commodity.
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