For me, drawing is a lot to do with taking out, with returning to the white of the paper.
JOHN BERGERSeeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak.
More John Berger Quotes
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Yet the first symbols were animals. What distinguished men from animals was born of their relationship with them.
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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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Capitalism survives by forcing the majority, whom it exploits, to define their own interests as narrowly as possible.
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Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.
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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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[O]ften 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 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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Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak.
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Never again shall a single story be told as though it were the only one.
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We never look at just one thing; we are always looking at the relation between things and ourselves.
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To be naked is to be oneself. To be nude is to be seen naked by others and yet not recognised for oneself.
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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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Never chain your dogs together with sausages. One must accustom one’s self to be bored.
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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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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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