Whenever he looked he saw the labour of existence; and this labour, recognised as such, was what constituted reality for him. (On Vincent Van Gogh)
JOHN BERGERMatisse did neither. He clashed his colours together like cymbals and the effect was like a lullaby.
More John Berger Quotes
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The existence of pleasure is the first mystery. The existence of pain has prompted far more philosophical speculation.
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Those who first invented and then named the constellations were storytellers.
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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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Ethics determine choices and actions and suggest difficult priorities.
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Fanaticism comes from any form of chosen blindness accompanying the pursuit of a single dogma.
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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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Drawing is a way of coming upon the connection between things, just like metaphor in poetry reconnects what has become separated.
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If everything that existed were continually being photographed, every photograph would become meaningless.
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Writers who have neither product utopian trash.
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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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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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Deep in the nature of theatre is a sense of ritual. The cinema, by contrast, transports its audience individually, singly, out of the theatre towards the unknown.
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It is comparatively easy to achieve a certain unity in a picture by allowing one colour to dominate, or by muting all the colours.
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Hope is a contraband passed from hand to hand and story to story.
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These contradictions both hide and increase the natural ambiguity of the photographic image.
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