Everything in life, is a question of drawing a life, John, and you have to decide for yourself where to draw it.
JOHN BERGERMy heart born naked was swaddled in lullabies.
More John Berger Quotes
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If the public photograph contributes to a memory, it is to the memory of an unknowable and total stranger.
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The surveyor of woman in herself is male: the surveyed female. Thus she turns herself into an object – and most particularly an object of vision: a sight.
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Oil painting did to appearances what capital did to social relations. It reduced everything to the equality of objects.
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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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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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As Nelson Mandela has pointed out, boycott is not a principle, it is a tactic depending upon circumstances.
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Propaganda requires a permanent network of communication so that it can systematically stifle reflection with emotive or utopian slogans. Its pace is usually fast.
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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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To be naked is to be oneself. To be nude is to be seen naked by others and yet not recognized for oneself. A naked body has to be seen as an object in order to become a nude.
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Paintings record what the painter remembers. Because each one of us forgets different things, a photo more than a painting may change its meaning according to who is looking at it.
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The essence of songs is neither vocal nor cerebral but organic.
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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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There’s the artist’s intimacy and truthfulness to himself, but an equal intimacy to the Other [the one drawn].
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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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For the Cro-Magnons, space is a metaphysical arena of continually intermittent appearances and disappearances.
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