I use charcoal a lot. Partly because it has such a fantastic range but also because it is very easy to erase.
JOHN BERGERWhat is saved in the cinema when it achieves art is a spontaneous continuity with all mankind.
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What is saved in the cinema when it achieves art is a spontaneous continuity with all mankind.
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Every city has a sex and an age which have nothing to do with demography. Rome is feminine. So is Odessa. London is a teenager, an urchin, and, in this, hasn’t changed since the time of Dickens. Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.
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Yet nowherein a zoo can a stranger encounter the look of an animal. At the most, the animal’s gaze flickers and passes on. They look sideways. They look blindly beyond.
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The essence of songs is neither vocal nor cerebral but organic.
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These contradictions both hide and increase the natural ambiguity of the photographic image.
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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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Ever since the Greek tragedies, artists have, from time to time, asked themselves how they might influence ongoing political events.
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Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.
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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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If the public photograph contributes to a memory, it is to the memory of an unknowable and total stranger.
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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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Tracing an imaginary line between a cluster of stars gave them an image and an identity.
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We know that the earth is turning away from it. Yet the knowledge, the explanation, never quite fits the sight.
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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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A peasant becomes fond of his pig and is glad to salt away its pork.
JOHN BERGER