Picasso drawings are like that… the Rembrandts are like that. The artist who most often did that was Van Gogh.
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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The zoo cannot but disappoint. The public purpose of zoos is to offer visitors the opportunity of looking at animals.
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I use charcoal a lot. Partly because it has such a fantastic range but also because it is very easy to erase.
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It is not usually possible in a poem or a story to make the relationship between particular and universal fully explicit. Those who try to do so end up writing parables.
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Between the experience of living a normal life at this moment on the planet and the public narratives being offered to give a sense to that life, the empty space, the gap, is enormous.
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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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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.
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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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Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity.
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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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We never look at just one thing; we are always looking at the relation between things and ourselves.
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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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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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Photography, because it stops the flow of life, is always flirting with death.
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All weddings are similar, but every marriage is different.
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If everything that existed were continually being photographed, every photograph would become meaningless.
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