The camera relieves us of the burden of memory.
JOHN BERGER
The impulse to paint comes neither from observation nor from the soul (which is probably blind) but from an encounter: the encounter between painter and model: even if the model is a mountain or a shelf of empty medicine bottles.
More John Berger Quotes
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The camera relieves us of the burden of memory.
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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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Compassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural.
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Hope is a contraband passed from hand to hand and story to story.
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To be naked is to be oneself.
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The impulse to paint comes neither from observation nor from the soul (which is probably blind) but from an encounter: the encounter between painter and model: even if the model is a mountain or a shelf of empty medicine bottles.
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All publicity works upon anxiety.
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Every painted image of something is also about the absence of the real thing. All painting is about the presence of absence.
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We follow songs in order to be enclosed. We find ourselves inside a message.
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Do you know the legend about cicadas? They say they are the souls of poets who cannot keep quiet because, when they were alive, they never wrote the poems they wanted to.
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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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(The sight of it as an object stimulates the use of it as an object.) Nakedness reveals itself. Nudity is placed on display. To be naked is to be without disguises.
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The heart of Paris is like nothing so much as the unending interior of a house.
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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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