All creation is in the art of seeing.
JOHN BERGERA 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.
More John Berger Quotes
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You can plan events, but if they go according to your plan they are not events.
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The essence of songs is neither vocal nor cerebral but organic.
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All weddings are similar, but every marriage is different.
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This was once achieved by extensive deprivation. Today in the developed countries it is being achieved by imposing a false standard of what is and what is not desirable.
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When we suffer anguish we return to early childhood because that is the period in which we first learnt to suffer the experience of total loss.
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Between the experience of living a normal life at this moment on the planet and the public narratives being offered to give a sense to that life, the empty space, the gap, is enormous.
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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 true content of a photograph is invisible, for it derives from a play, not with form, but with time.
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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 can happen that a book, unlike its authors, grows younger as the years pass.
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Nothing in the nature around us is evil. This needs to be repeated since one of the human ways of talking oneself into inhuman acts is to cite the supposed cruelty of nature.
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For the Cro-Magnons, space is a metaphysical arena of continually intermittent appearances and disappearances.
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It is comparatively easy to achieve a certain unity in a picture by allowing one colour to dominate, or by muting all the colours.
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In the average European oil painting of the nude the principal protagonist is never painted. He is the spectator in front of the picture and he is presumed to be a man.
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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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