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.
JOHN BERGERA 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.
More John Berger Quotes
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Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion.
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What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time.
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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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Art, when it functions like this, becomes a meeting-place of the invisible, the irreducible, the enduring, guts, and honor.
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Post-modernism has cut off the present from all futures. The daily media add to this by cutting off the past. Which means that critical opinion is often orphaned in the present.
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We only see what we look at. To look is an act of choice.
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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 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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Words are so often used in the opposite sense, as a screen of diversion. It’s the struggle towards truthfulness which is the same whether one is writing a poem, a novel or an argument.
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As Nelson Mandela has pointed out, boycott is not a principle, it is a tactic depending upon circumstances.
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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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What any true painting touches is an absence – an absence of which without the painting, we might be unaware. And that would be our loss.
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We who draw do so not only to make something observed visible to others, but also to accompany something invisible to its incalculable destination
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(The sight of it as an object stimulates the use of it as an object.) Nakedness reveals itself. Nudity is placed on display. To be naked is to be without disguises.
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Writers who have neither product utopian trash.
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