I use charcoal a lot. Partly because it has such a fantastic range but also because it is very easy to erase.
JOHN BERGERThe spectator-buyer is meant to envy herself as she will become if she buys the product.
More John Berger Quotes
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Yet the first symbols were animals. What distinguished men from animals was born of their relationship with them.
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Compassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural.
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The opposite of love is not to hate but to separate. If love and hate have something in common it is because, in both cases, their energy is that of bringing and holding together
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Those who first invented and then named the constellations were storytellers.
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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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Every authentic poem contributes to the labour of poetry… to bring together what life has separated or violence has torn apart.
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I wanted to write about looking at the world, so it’s more about helping people, or persuading people, to see what is around us; both the marvellous and the terrible.
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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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To be naked is to be oneself. To be nude is to be seen naked by others and yet not recognised for oneself.
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Words are so often used in the opposite sense, as a screen of diversion. It’s the struggle towards truthfulness which is the same whether one is writing a poem, a novel or an argument.
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As Nelson Mandela has pointed out, boycott is not a principle, it is a tactic depending upon circumstances.
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Landscapes can be deceptive. Sometimes a landscape seems to be less a setting for the life of its inhabitants than a curtain behind which their struggles, achievements and accidents takes place.
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What distinguished man from animals was the human capacity for symbolic thought, the capacity which was inseparable from the development of language in which words were not mere signals, but signifiers of something other than themselves.
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Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity.
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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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