In the modern world, in which thousands of people are dying every hour as a consequence of politics, no writing anywhere can begin to be credible unless it is informed by political awareness and principles.
JOHN BERGERCompassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural.
More John Berger Quotes
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The strange power of art is sometimes it can show that what people have in common is more urgent than what differentiates them. It seems to me it’s something that theatre can do, but it’s rare; it’s very rare.
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The relation between what we see and what we know is never settled. Each evening we see the sun set.
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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 camera relieves us of the burden of memory.
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Art, when it functions like this, becomes a meeting-place of the invisible, the irreducible, the enduring, guts, and honor.
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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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Everything in life, is a question of drawing a life, John, and you have to decide for yourself where to draw it.
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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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All creation is in the art of seeing.
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When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls.
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Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.
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Poetry can repair no loss, but it defies the space which separates. And it does this by its continual labor of reassembling what has been scattered.
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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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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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All publicity works upon anxiety.
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