We who draw do so not only to make something observed visible to others, but also to accompany something invisible to its incalculable destination
JOHN BERGERFor those who are behind the curtain, landmarks are no longer only geographic but also biographical and personal
More John Berger Quotes
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I wanted to write about looking at the world, so it’s more about helping people, or persuading people, to see what is around us; both the marvellous and the terrible.
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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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A tactic which allows people, as distinct from their elected but often craven governments, to apply a certain pressure on those wielding power in what they, the boycotters, consider to be an unjust or immoral way.
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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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It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open.
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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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Every authentic poem contributes to the labour of poetry… to bring together what life has separated or violence has torn apart.
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It was more than that. It was the period in which we suffered more total losses than in all the rest of our life put together.
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Every authentic poem contributes to the labor of poetry… to bring together what life has separated or violence has torn apart…
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Ours is the century of enforced travel of disappearances.
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Nothing fortuitous happens in a child’s world. There are no accidents. Everything is connected with everything else and everything can be explained by everything else. . . . For a young child everything that happens is a necessity.
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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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Do you know the legend about cicadas? They say they are the souls of poets who cannot keep quiet because, when they were alive, they never wrote the poems they wanted to.
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Nakedness reveals itself. Nudity is placed on display. The nude is condemned to never being naked. Nudity is a form of dress.
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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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