Art, when it functions like this, becomes a meeting-place of the invisible, the irreducible, the enduring, guts, and honor.
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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At times failure is very necessary for the artist. It reminds him that failure is not the ultimate disaster. And this reminder liberates him from the mean fussing of perfectionism.
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Compare the cinema with theatre. Both are dramatic arts. Theatre brings actors before a public and every night during the season they re-enact the same drama.
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Common-sense is part of the home-made ideology of those who have been deprived of fundamental learning, of those who have been kept ignorant.
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Your lips, beloved, are like a honeycomb: honey and milk are under the tongue. And the smell of your clothes is like the smell of my home.
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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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We follow songs in order to be enclosed. We find ourselves inside a message.
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Capitalism survives by forcing the majority, whom it exploits, to define their own interests as narrowly as possible.
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Traditional Chinese art looked at the Earth from a Confucian mountain top;
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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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This determines not only most relations between men and women but also the relation of women to themselves.
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For those who are behind the curtain, landmarks are no longer only geographic but also biographical and personal
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Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.
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When we suffer anguish we return to early childhood because that is the period in which we first learnt to suffer the experience of total loss.
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What distinguished man from animals was the human capacity for symbolic thought, the capacity which was inseparable from the development of language in which words were not mere signals, but signifiers of something other than themselves.
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No painting or drawing, however naturalist, belongs to its subject in the way that a photograph does.
JOHN BERGER