I use charcoal a lot. Partly because it has such a fantastic range but also because it is very easy to erase.
JOHN BERGERTo be naked is to be oneself. To be nude is to be seen naked by others and yet not recognised for oneself.
More John Berger Quotes
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Compare the cinema with theatre. Both are dramatic arts. Theatre brings actors before a public and every night during the season they re-enact the same drama.
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The happiness of being envied is glamour. Being envied is a solitary form of reassurance. It depends precisely upon not sharing your experience with those who envy you.
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A man’s presence suggests what he is capable of doing to you or for you.
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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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To be naked is to be oneself. To be nude is to be seen naked by others and yet not recognized for oneself. A naked body has to be seen as an object in order to become a nude.
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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.
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Traditional Chinese art looked at the Earth from a Confucian mountain top;
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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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Yet the first symbols were animals. What distinguished men from animals was born of their relationship with them.
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You painted a naked woman because you enjoyed looking at her, put a mirror in her hand and you called the painting “Vanity,” thus morally condemning the woman whose nakedness you had depicted for you own pleasure.
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It can happen that a book, unlike its authors, grows younger as the years pass.
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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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What any true painting touches is an absence – an absence of which without the painting, we might be unaware. And that would be our loss.
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It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open.
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Pleasure and pain need to be considered together; they are inseparable. Yet the space filled by each is perhaps different. Pleasure, defined as a sense of gratification, is essential for nature
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