Ethics determine choices and actions and suggest difficult priorities.
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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In the modern world, in which thousands of people are dying every hour as a consequence of politics, no writing anywhere can begin to be credible unless it is informed by political awareness and principles.
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The heart of Paris is like nothing so much as the unending interior of a house.
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Those who first invented and then named the constellations were storytellers.
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All photographs are there to remind us of what we forget. In this – as in other ways – they are the opposite of paintings.
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The power of the glamorous resides in their supposed happiness: the power of the bureaucrat in his supposed authority.
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A tactic which allows people, as distinct from their elected but often craven governments, to apply a certain pressure on those wielding power in what they, the boycotters, consider to be an unjust or immoral way.
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Traditional Chinese art looked at the Earth from a Confucian mountain top;
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If everything that existed were continually being photographed, every photograph would become meaningless.
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For those who are behind the curtain, landmarks are no longer only geographic but also biographical and personal
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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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Buildings become furniture, courtyards become carpets and arrases, the streets are like galleries, the boulevards conservatories. It is a house, one or two centuries old, rich, bourgeois, distinguished. The only way of going out, or shutting the door behind you, is to leave the centre.
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The stars threaded on that line were like events threaded on a narrative. Imagining the constellations did not of course change the stars, nor did it change the black emptiness that surrounds them. What it changed was the way people read the night sky.
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Hair is associated with sexual power. With passion.
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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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Picasso drawings are like that… the Rembrandts are like that. The artist who most often did that was Van Gogh.
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