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.
JOHN BERGERAll creation is in the art of seeing.
More John Berger Quotes
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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 unsung, impersonal world remains outside, on the other surface of a placenta. All songs, even when their content or rendering is strongly masculine, operate maternally.
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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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Advertising is not merely an assembly of competing messages; it is a language itself which is always being used to make the same general proposal
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My heart born naked was swaddled in lullabies.
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The stars threaded on that line were like events threaded on a narrative. Imagining the constellations did not of course change the stars, nor did it change the black emptiness that surrounds them. What it changed was the way people read the night sky.
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You can plan events, but if they go according to your plan they are not events.
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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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For the Cro-Magnons, space is a metaphysical arena of continually intermittent appearances and disappearances.
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A tactic which allows people, as distinct from their elected but often craven governments, to apply a certain pressure on those wielding power in what they, the boycotters, consider to be an unjust or immoral way.
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Writers who have neither product utopian trash.
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The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.
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The zoo cannot but disappoint. The public purpose of zoos is to offer visitors the opportunity of looking at animals.
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This determines not only most relations between men and women but also the relation of women to themselves.
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It can happen that a book, unlike its authors, grows younger as the years pass.
JOHN BERGER