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 BERGERYou can plan events, but if they go according to your plan they are not events.
More John Berger Quotes
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The extreme proposition on which Giacometti based all his mature work was that no reality… could ever be shared. This is why he believed it impossible for a work to be finished. This is why the content of any work is not the nature of the figure or head portrayed but the incomplete history of him staring at it.
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You cant draw it for others. You can try, of course, but it doesn’t work. People obeying rules laid down my somebody else is not the same thing as respecting life. And if you want to respect life, you have to draw a line.
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As Nelson Mandela has pointed out, boycott is not a principle, it is a tactic depending upon circumstances.
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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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Emigration, forced or chosen, across national frontiers or from village to metropolis, is the quintessential experience of our time.
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Those who first invented and then named the constellations were storytellers.
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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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We know that the earth is turning away from it. Yet the knowledge, the explanation, never quite fits the sight.
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Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.
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A tactic which allows people, as distinct from their elected but often craven governments, to apply a certain pressure on those wielding power in what they, the boycotters, consider to be an unjust or immoral way.
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To be desired is perhaps the closest anybody in this life can reach to feeling immortal.
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All publicity works upon anxiety.
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A man’s presence suggests what he is capable of doing to you or for you.
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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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Compassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural.
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