Those who first invented and then named the constellations were storytellers.
JOHN BERGERI use charcoal a lot. Partly because it has such a fantastic range but also because it is very easy to erase.
More John Berger Quotes
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All weddings are similar, but every marriage is different.
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What is significant, and is so difficult for the urban stranger to understand, is that the two statements are connected by an and not by a but.
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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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Compassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural.
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Post-modernism has cut off the present from all futures. The daily media add to this by cutting off the past. Which means that critical opinion is often orphaned in the present.
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Fanaticism comes from any form of chosen blindness accompanying the pursuit of a single dogma.
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I can’t tell you what art does and how it does it, but I know that often art has judged the judges, pleaded revenge to the innocent and shown to the future what the past suffered, so that it has never been forgotten.
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The impulse to paint comes neither from observation nor from the soul (which is probably blind) but from an encounter: the encounter between painter and model: even if the model is a mountain or a shelf of empty medicine bottles.
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Every painted image of something is also about the absence of the real thing. All painting is about the presence of absence.
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Landscapes can be deceptive. Sometimes a landscape seems to be less a setting for the life of its inhabitants than a curtain behind which their struggles, achievements and accidents takes place.
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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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Ours is the century of enforced travel of disappearances.
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The relation between what we see and what we know is never settled. Each evening we see the sun set.
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Protest and anger practically always derives from hope, and the shouting out against injustice is always in the hope of those injustices being somewhat corrected and a little more justice established.
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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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