I wanted to write about looking at the world, so it’s more about helping people, or persuading people, to see what is around us; both the marvellous and the terrible.
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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Capitalism survives by forcing the majority, whom it exploits, to define their own interests as narrowly as possible.
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Never again shall a single story be told as though it were the only one.
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For the Cro-Magnons, space is a metaphysical arena of continually intermittent appearances and disappearances.
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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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For me, drawing is a lot to do with taking out, with returning to the white of the paper.
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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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Every authentic poem contributes to the labor of poetry… to bring together what life has separated or violence has torn apart…
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A photograph is a result of the photographer’s decision that it is worth recording that this particular event or this particular object has been seen. If everything that existed were continually being photographed, every photograph would become meaningless.
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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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The essence of songs is neither vocal nor cerebral but organic.
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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 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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A photograph is a meeting place where the interests of the photographer, the photographed, the viewer and those who are using the photograph are often contradictory.
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Nakedness reveals itself. Nudity is placed on display. The nude is condemned to never being naked. Nudity is a form of dress.
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We only see what we look at. To look is an act of choice.
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