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.
JOHN BERGERThe existence of pleasure is the first mystery. The existence of pain has prompted far more philosophical speculation.
More John Berger Quotes
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Today the discredit of words is very great.
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Writers who have neither product utopian trash.
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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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What is saved in the cinema when it achieves art is a spontaneous continuity with all mankind.
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The century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to them, disappear over the horizon.
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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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We only see what we look at. To look is an act of choice.
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Common-sense is part of the home-made ideology of those who have been deprived of fundamental learning, of those who have been kept ignorant.
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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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If every event which occurred could be given a name, there would be no need for stories.
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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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What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time.
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Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion.
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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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