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 BERGER
Drawing 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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Everything became exchangeable because everything became a commodity.
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Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion.
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The opposite of love is not to hate but to separate. If love and hate have something in common it is because, in both cases, their energy is that of bringing and holding together
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Common-sense is part of the home-made ideology of those who have been deprived of fundamental learning, of those who have been kept ignorant.
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When we suffer anguish we return to early childhood because that is the period in which we first learnt to suffer the experience of total loss.
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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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The camera relieves us of the burden of memory.
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Poetry can repair no loss, but it defies the space which separates. And it does this by its continual labor of reassembling what has been scattered.
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Protest and anger practically always derives from hope, and the shouting out against injustice is always in the hope of those injustices being somewhat corrected and a little more justice established.
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These contradictions both hide and increase the natural ambiguity of the photographic image.
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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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