This was once achieved by extensive deprivation. Today in the developed countries it is being achieved by imposing a false standard of what is and what is not desirable.
JOHN BERGERThe unsung, impersonal world remains outside, on the other surface of a placenta. All songs, even when their content or rendering is strongly masculine, operate maternally.
More John Berger Quotes
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Never chain your dogs together with sausages. One must accustom one’s self to be bored.
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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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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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Whenever the intensity of looking reaches a certain degree, one becomes aware of an equally intense energy coming towards one through the appearance of whatever it is one is scrutinizing.
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These contradictions both hide and increase the natural ambiguity of the photographic image.
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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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Tracing an imaginary line between a cluster of stars gave them an image and an identity.
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A cigarette is a breathing space. It makes a parenthesis.
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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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Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time has become Death triumphant over all.
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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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If everything that existed were continually being photographed, every photograph would become meaningless.
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All photographs are there to remind us of what we forget. In this – as in other ways – they are the opposite of paintings.
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The heart of Paris is like nothing so much as the unending interior of a house.
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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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