You can plan events, but if they go according to your plan they are not events.
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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Yet the first symbols were animals. What distinguished men from animals was born of their relationship with them.
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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.
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The zoo cannot but disappoint.
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Japanese art looked closely around screens; Italian Renaissance art surveyed conquered nature through the window or door-frame of a palace.
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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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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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To be naked is to be oneself. To be nude is to be seen naked by others and yet not recognised for oneself.
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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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All creation is in the art of seeing.
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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.
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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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She is meant to imagine herself transformed by the product into an object of envy for others, an envy which will then justify her loving herself.
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Compare the cinema with theatre. Both are dramatic arts. Theatre brings actors before a public and every night during the season they re-enact the same drama.
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The time of a cigarette is a parenthesis, and if it is shared, you are both in that parenthesis. Its like a proscenium arch for a dialogue.
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Matisse did neither. He clashed his colours together like cymbals and the effect was like a lullaby.
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