Painting is something that you need to do, if not every day, then certainly most days. It is almost like being a pianist: if you stop, you lose something.
JOHN BERGERThe heart of Paris is like nothing so much as the unending interior of a house.
More John Berger Quotes
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Ours is the century of enforced travel of disappearances.
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Nothing fortuitous happens in a child’s world. There are no accidents. Everything is connected with everything else and everything can be explained by everything else. . . . For a young child everything that happens is a necessity.
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Drawing is a way of coming upon the connection between things, just like metaphor in poetry reconnects what has become separated.
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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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The existence of pleasure is the first mystery. The existence of pain has prompted far more philosophical speculation.
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All publicity works upon anxiety.
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All weddings are similar, but every marriage is different.
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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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This determines not only most relations between men and women but also the relation of women to themselves.
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What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time.
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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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Pleasure and pain need to be considered together; they are inseparable. Yet the space filled by each is perhaps different. Pleasure, defined as a sense of gratification, is essential for nature
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The publicity image steals her love of herself as she is, and offers it back to her for the price of the product.
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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 camera relieves us of the burden of memory.
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