It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open.
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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For the artist, drawing is discovery. And that is not just a slick phrase; it is quite literally true.
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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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Writers who have neither product utopian trash.
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It is seeing which establishes our place in the surrounding world; we explain that world with words, but words can never undo the fact that we are surrounded by it
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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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The power of the glamorous resides in their supposed happiness: the power of the bureaucrat in his supposed authority.
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A drawing is essentially a private work, related only to the artist’s own needs; a ‘finished’ statue or canvas is essentially a public, presented work – related far more directly to the demands of communication.
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It was more than that. It was the period in which we suffered more total losses than in all the rest of our life put together.
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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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The century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to them, disappear over the horizon.
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The unsung, impersonal world remains outside, on the other surface of a placenta. All songs, even when their content or rendering is strongly masculine, operate maternally.
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Hair is associated with sexual power. With passion.
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We never look at just one thing; we are always looking at the relation between things and ourselves.
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By contrast, a woman’s presence… defines what can and cannot be done to her.
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It can happen that a book, unlike its authors, grows younger as the years pass.
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