Yet the first symbols were animals. What distinguished men from animals was born of their relationship with them.
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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Picasso drawings are like that… the Rembrandts are like that. The artist who most often did that was Van Gogh.
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Traditional Chinese art looked at the Earth from a Confucian mountain top;
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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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This determines not only most relations between men and women but also the relation of women to themselves.
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Fanaticism comes from any form of chosen blindness accompanying the pursuit of a single dogma.
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Photographs bear witness to a human choice being exercised in a given situation.
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Those who first invented and then named the constellations were storytellers.
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All creation is in the art of seeing.
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(The sight of it as an object stimulates the use of it as an object.) Nakedness reveals itself. Nudity is placed on display. To be naked is to be without disguises.
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The opposite of love is not to hate but to separate. If love and hate have something in common it is because, in both cases, their energy is that of bringing and holding together
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The heart of Paris is like nothing so much as the unending interior of a house.
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Painting is something that you need to do, if not every day, then certainly most days. It is almost like being a pianist: if you stop, you lose something.
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A drawing is essentially a private work, related only to the artist’s own needs; a ‘finished’ statue or canvas is essentially a public, presented work – related far more directly to the demands of communication.
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To be desired is perhaps the closest anybody in this life can reach to feeling immortal.
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The time of a cigarette is a parenthesis, and if it is shared, you are both in that parenthesis. Its like a proscenium arch for a dialogue.
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