For me, drawing is a lot to do with taking out, with returning to the white of the paper.
JOHN BERGERThe past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.
More John Berger Quotes
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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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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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Photographs bear witness to a human choice being exercised in a given situation.
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The camera relieves us of the burden of memory.
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Never again shall a single story be told as though it were the only one.
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A man’s presence suggests what he is capable of doing to you or for you.
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For the Cro-Magnons, space is a metaphysical arena of continually intermittent appearances and disappearances.
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But toemigrate is always to dismantle the centre of the world, and so to move into a lost, disoriented one of fragments.
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It can happen that a book, unlike its authors, grows younger as the years pass.
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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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If everything that existed were continually being photographed, every photograph would become meaningless.
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The unsung, impersonal world remains outside, on the other surface of a placenta. All songs, even when their content or rendering is strongly masculine, operate maternally.
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To be naked is to be oneself.
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What is to happen next will take place within the four walls of the story. And this is possible because the story’s voice makes everything its own.
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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.
JOHN BERGER