Traditional Chinese art looked at the Earth from a Confucian mountain top;
JOHN BERGERAll creation is in the art of seeing.
More John Berger Quotes
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To be naked is to be oneself.
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The human imagination… has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist practice or philosophy.
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For those who are behind the curtain, landmarks are no longer only geographic but also biographical and personal
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Everything in life, is a question of drawing a life, John, and you have to decide for yourself where to draw it.
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It is seeing which establishes our place in the surrounding world; we explain that world with words, but words can never undo the fact that we are surrounded by it
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Those who first invented and then named the constellations were storytellers.
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A drawing is an autobiographical record of one’s discovery of an event – either seen, remembered or imagined. A ‘finished’ work is an attempt to construct an event in itself.
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It is comparatively easy to achieve a certain unity in a picture by allowing one colour to dominate, or by muting all the colours.
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A cigarette is a breathing space. It makes a parenthesis.
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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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Ethics determine choices and actions and suggest difficult priorities.
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These contradictions both hide and increase the natural ambiguity of the photographic image.
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Capitalism survives by forcing the majority, whom it exploits, to define their own interests as narrowly as possible.
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A peasant becomes fond of his pig and is glad to salt away its pork.
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The camera relieves us of the burden of memory.
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