Everything in life, is a question of drawing a life, John, and you have to decide for yourself where to draw it.
JOHN BERGERSeeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak.
More John Berger Quotes
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We know that the earth is turning away from it. Yet the knowledge, the explanation, never quite fits the sight.
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There’s the artist’s intimacy and truthfulness to himself, but an equal intimacy to the Other [the one drawn].
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The human imagination… has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist practice or philosophy.
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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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A man’s presence suggests what he is capable of doing to you or for you.
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What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time.
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Today the discredit of words is very great.
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Yet nowherein a zoo can a stranger encounter the look of an animal. At the most, the animal’s gaze flickers and passes on. They look sideways. They look blindly beyond.
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For the Cro-Magnons, space is a metaphysical arena of continually intermittent appearances and disappearances.
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We who draw do so not only to make something observed visible to others, but also to accompany something invisible to its incalculable destination
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The existence of pleasure is the first mystery. The existence of pain has prompted far more philosophical speculation.
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To remain innocent may also be. to remain ignorant.
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Poetry can repair no loss, but it defies the space which separates. And it does this by its continual labor of reassembling what has been scattered.
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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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Writers who have neither product utopian trash.
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