Protest and anger practically always derives from hope, and the shouting out against injustice is always in the hope of those injustices being somewhat corrected and a little more justice established.
JOHN BERGERWe who draw do so not only to make something observed visible to others, but also to accompany something invisible to its incalculable destination
More John Berger Quotes
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Tracing an imaginary line between a cluster of stars gave them an image and an identity.
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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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Today the discredit of words is very great.
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The century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to them, disappear over the horizon.
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That we find a crystal or a poppy beautiful means that we are less alone, that we are more deeply inserted into existence than the course of a single life would lead us to believe.
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Whenever he looked he saw the labour of existence; and this labour, recognised as such, was what constituted reality for him. (On Vincent Van Gogh)
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The impulse to paint comes neither from observation nor from the soul (which is probably blind) but from an encounter: the encounter between painter and model: even if the model is a mountain or a shelf of empty medicine bottles.
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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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The zoo cannot but disappoint.
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She is meant to imagine herself transformed by the product into an object of envy for others, an envy which will then justify her loving herself.
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Pleasure and pain need to be considered together; they are inseparable. Yet the space filled by each is perhaps different. Pleasure, defined as a sense of gratification, is essential for nature
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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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The power of the glamorous resides in their supposed happiness: the power of the bureaucrat in his supposed authority.
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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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This determines not only most relations between men and women but also the relation of women to themselves.
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