Picasso drawings are like that… the Rembrandts are like that. The artist who most often did that was Van Gogh.
JOHN BERGERHope is a contraband passed from hand to hand and story to story.
More John Berger Quotes
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When he painted a road, the roadmakers were there in his imagination, when he painted the turned earth of a ploughed field, the gesture of the blade turning the earth was included in his own act.
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All weddings are similar, but every marriage is different.
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Hair is associated with sexual power. With passion.
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By contrast, a woman’s presence… defines what can and cannot be done to her.
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The woman’s sexual passion needs to be minimized, so that the spectator may feel that he has the monopoly on such 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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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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For the artist, drawing is discovery. And that is not just a slick phrase; it is quite literally true.
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Never chain your dogs together with sausages. One must accustom one’s self to be bored.
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Words are so often used in the opposite sense, as a screen of diversion. It’s the struggle towards truthfulness which is the same whether one is writing a poem, a novel or an argument.
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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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The essence of songs is neither vocal nor cerebral but organic.
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The true content of a photograph is invisible, for it derives from a play, not with form, but with time.
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The spectator-buyer is meant to envy herself as she will become if she buys the product.
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The heart of Paris is like nothing so much as the unending interior of a house.
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