Art, when it functions like this, becomes a meeting-place of the invisible, the irreducible, the enduring, guts, and honor.
JOHN BERGERThe animal has secrets which, unlike the secrets of caves, mountains, seas are specifically addressed to man.
More John Berger Quotes
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Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.
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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.
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What any true painting touches is an absence – an absence of which without the painting, we might be unaware. And that would be our loss.
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Buildings become furniture, courtyards become carpets and arrases, the streets are like galleries, the boulevards conservatories. It is a house, one or two centuries old, rich, bourgeois, distinguished. The only way of going out, or shutting the door behind you, is to leave the centre.
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Never chain your dogs together with sausages. One must accustom one’s self to be bored.
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The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich.
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Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.
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It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open.
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Whenever he looked he saw the labour of existence; and this labour, recognised as such, was what constituted reality for him. (On Vincent Van Gogh)
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To be desired is perhaps the closest anybody in this life can reach to feeling immortal.
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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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The century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to them, disappear over the horizon.
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You can plan events, but if they go according to your plan they are not events.
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All creation is in the art of seeing.
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My heart born naked was swaddled in lullabies.
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