For me, drawing is a lot to do with taking out, with returning to the white of the paper.
JOHN BERGERFor the Cro-Magnons, space is a metaphysical arena of continually intermittent appearances and disappearances.
More John Berger Quotes
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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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All publicity works upon anxiety.
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Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity.
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What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time.
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If the public photograph contributes to a memory, it is to the memory of an unknowable and total stranger.
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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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To live and die amongst foreigners may seem less absurd than to live persecuted or tortured by one’s fellow countrymen….
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A photograph is a result of the photographer’s decision that it is worth recording that this particular event or this particular object has been seen. If everything that existed were continually being photographed, every photograph would become meaningless.
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Traditional Chinese art looked at the Earth from a Confucian mountain top;
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The contradiction in perspective was that it structured all images of reality to address a single spectator who, unlike God, could only be in one place at a time.
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Every city has a sex and an age which have nothing to do with demography. Rome is feminine. So is Odessa. London is a teenager, an urchin, and, in this, hasn’t changed since the time of Dickens. Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.
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She is meant to imagine herself transformed by the product into an object of envy for others, an envy which will then justify her loving herself.
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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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A peasant becomes fond of his pig and is glad to salt away its pork.
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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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