It is comparatively easy to achieve a certain unity in a picture by allowing one colour to dominate, or by muting all the colours.
JOHN BERGEROne of the fundamental reasons why so many doctors become cynical and disillusioned is precisely because, when the abstract idealism has worn thin, they are uncertain about the value of the actual lives of the patients they are treating.
More John Berger Quotes
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At times failure is very necessary for the artist. It reminds him that failure is not the ultimate disaster. And this reminder liberates him from the mean fussing of perfectionism.
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We can become anything. That is why injustice is impossible here. There may be the accident of birth, there is no accident of death. Nothing forces us to remain what we were.
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Writers who have neither product utopian trash.
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Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.
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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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A cigarette is a breathing space. It makes a parenthesis.
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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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The animal has secrets which, unlike the secrets of caves, mountains, seas are specifically addressed to man.
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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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I use charcoal a lot. Partly because it has such a fantastic range but also because it is very easy to erase.
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Hair is associated with sexual power. With passion.
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Post-modernism has cut off the present from all futures. The daily media add to this by cutting off the past. Which means that critical opinion is often orphaned in the present.
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Fanaticism comes from any form of chosen blindness accompanying the pursuit of a single dogma.
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Japanese art looked closely around screens; Italian Renaissance art surveyed conquered nature through the window or door-frame of a palace.
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Photographs bear witness to a human choice being exercised in a given situation.
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