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.
JOHN BERGEREverything became exchangeable because everything became a commodity.
More John Berger Quotes
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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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Nakedness reveals itself. Nudity is placed on display. The nude is condemned to never being naked. Nudity is a form of dress.
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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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We never look at just one thing; we are always looking at the relation between things and ourselves.
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There’s the artist’s intimacy and truthfulness to himself, but an equal intimacy to the Other [the one drawn].
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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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The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich.
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For me, drawing is a lot to do with taking out, with returning to the white of the paper.
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Propaganda requires a permanent network of communication so that it can systematically stifle reflection with emotive or utopian slogans. Its pace is usually fast.
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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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All weddings are similar, but every marriage is different.
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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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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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Art, when it functions like this, becomes a meeting-place of the invisible, the irreducible, the enduring, guts, and honor.
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To be naked is to be oneself.
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