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.
JOHN BERGERPublicity is the life of this culture – in so far as without publicity capitalism could not survive – and at the same time publicity is its dream.
More John Berger Quotes
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To be naked is to be oneself. To be nude is to be seen naked by others and yet not recognised for oneself.
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It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open.
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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 true content of a photograph is invisible, for it derives from a play, not with form, but with time.
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Those who first invented and then named the constellations were storytellers.
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Never chain your dogs together with sausages. One must accustom one’s self to be bored.
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(The sight of it as an object stimulates the use of it as an object.) Nakedness reveals itself. Nudity is placed on display. To be naked is to be without disguises.
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Whenever he looked he saw the labour of existence; and this labour, recognised as such, was what constituted reality for him. (On Vincent Van Gogh)
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All publicity works upon anxiety.
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Every authentic poem contributes to the labour of poetry… to bring together what life has separated or violence has torn apart.
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Landscapes can be deceptive. Sometimes a landscape seems to be less a setting for the life of its inhabitants than a curtain behind which their struggles, achievements and accidents takes place.
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Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.
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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.
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What distinguished man from animals was the human capacity for symbolic thought, the capacity which was inseparable from the development of language in which words were not mere signals, but signifiers of something other than themselves.
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One of the fundamental reasons why so many doctors become cynical and disillusioned is precisely because, when the abstract idealism has worn thin, they are uncertain about the value of the actual lives of the patients they are treating.
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