Matisse did neither. He clashed his colours together like cymbals and the effect was like a lullaby.
JOHN BERGERIt is comparatively easy to achieve a certain unity in a picture by allowing one colour to dominate, or by muting all the colours.
More John Berger Quotes
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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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At times failure is very necessary for the artist. It reminds him that failure is not the ultimate disaster. And this reminder liberates him from the mean fussing of perfectionism.
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We follow songs in order to be enclosed. We find ourselves inside a message.
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These contradictions both hide and increase the natural ambiguity of the photographic image.
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Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity.
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The strange power of art is sometimes it can show that what people have in common is more urgent than what differentiates them. It seems to me it’s something that theatre can do, but it’s rare; it’s very rare.
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What is to happen next will take place within the four walls of the story. And this is possible because the story’s voice makes everything its own.
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The essence of songs is neither vocal nor cerebral but organic.
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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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For the Cro-Magnons, space is a metaphysical arena of continually intermittent appearances and disappearances.
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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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It was more than that. It was the period in which we suffered more total losses than in all the rest of our life put together.
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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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Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion.
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Your lips, beloved, are like a honeycomb: honey and milk are under the tongue. And the smell of your clothes is like the smell of my home.
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