The human imagination… has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist practice or philosophy.
JOHN BERGERCompassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity.
More John Berger Quotes
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To live and die amongst foreigners may seem less absurd than to live persecuted or tortured by one’s fellow countrymen….
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Everything became exchangeable because everything became a commodity.
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Those who first invented and then named the constellations were storytellers.
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A drawing is essentially a private work, related only to the artist’s own needs; a ‘finished’ statue or canvas is essentially a public, presented work – related far more directly to the demands of communication.
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Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak.
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It is comparatively easy to achieve a certain unity in a picture by allowing one colour to dominate, or by muting all the colours.
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For me, drawing is a lot to do with taking out, with returning to the white of the paper.
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To be naked is to be oneself.
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The envied are like bureaucrats; the more impersonal they are, the greater the illusion (for themselves and for others) of their power.
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To remain innocent may also be. to remain ignorant.
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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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Everything in life, is a question of drawing a life, John, and you have to decide for yourself where to draw it.
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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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The century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to them, disappear over the horizon.
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The happiness of being envied is glamour. Being envied is a solitary form of reassurance. It depends precisely upon not sharing your experience with those who envy you.
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