What is to happen next will take place within the four walls of the story. And this is possible because the story’s voice makes everything its own.
JOHN BERGERDrawing is a way of coming upon the connection between things, just like metaphor in poetry reconnects what has become separated.
More John Berger Quotes
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The animal has secrets which, unlike the secrets of caves, mountains, seas are specifically addressed to man.
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The heart of Paris is like nothing so much as the unending interior of a house.
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When he painted a road, the roadmakers were there in his imagination, when he painted the turned earth of a ploughed field, the gesture of the blade turning the earth was included in his own act.
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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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A peasant becomes fond of his pig and is glad to salt away its pork.
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When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls.
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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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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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It can happen that a book, unlike its authors, grows younger as the years pass.
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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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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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For the Cro-Magnons, space is a metaphysical arena of continually intermittent appearances and disappearances.
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For me, drawing is a lot to do with taking out, with returning to the white of the paper.
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The zoo cannot but disappoint.
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You are observed with interest but you do not observe with interest – if you do, you will become less enviable. In this respect the envied are like bureaucrats; the more impersonal they are, the greater the illusion (for themselves and for others) of their power.
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