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.
JOHN BERGERPhotography, because it stops the flow of life, is always flirting with death.
More John Berger Quotes
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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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The strange power of art is sometimes it can show that what people have in common is more urgent than what differentiates them. It seems to me it’s something that theatre can do, but it’s rare; it’s very rare.
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The heart of Paris is like nothing so much as the unending interior of a house.
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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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Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.
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I use charcoal a lot. Partly because it has such a fantastic range but also because it is very easy to erase.
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What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time.
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Photographs bear witness to a human choice being exercised in a given situation.
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The woman’s sexual passion needs to be minimized, so that the spectator may feel that he has the monopoly on such passion
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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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I can’t tell you what art does and how it does it, but I know that often art has judged the judges, pleaded revenge to the innocent and shown to the future what the past suffered, so that it has never been forgotten.
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One can say of language that it is potentially the only human home, the only dwelling place that cannot be hostile to man.
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Emigration, forced or chosen, across national frontiers or from village to metropolis, is the quintessential experience of our time.
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Every authentic poem contributes to the labor of poetry… to bring together what life has separated or violence has torn apart…
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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)
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