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.
JOHN BERGERTracing an imaginary line between a cluster of stars gave them an image and an identity.
More John Berger Quotes
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Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion.
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That we find a crystal or a poppy beautiful means that we are less alone, that we are more deeply inserted into existence than the course of a single life would lead us to believe.
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The zoo cannot but disappoint.
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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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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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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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Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.
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No painting or drawing, however naturalist, belongs to its subject in the way that a photograph does.
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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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The human imagination… has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist practice or philosophy.
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The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.
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We who draw do so not only to make something observed visible to others, but also to accompany something invisible to its incalculable destination
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The century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to them, disappear over the horizon.
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Your lips, beloved, are like a honeycomb: honey and milk are under the tongue. And the smell of your clothes is like the smell of my home.
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Nakedness reveals itself. Nudity is placed on display. The nude is condemned to never being naked. Nudity is a form of dress.
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