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 BERGERThis determines not only most relations between men and women but also the relation of women to themselves.
More John Berger Quotes
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Writers who have neither product utopian trash.
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The century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to them, disappear over the horizon.
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Photography, because it stops the flow of life, is always flirting with death.
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Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak.
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A peasant becomes fond of his pig and is glad to salt away its pork.
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To be desired is perhaps the closest anybody in this life can reach to feeling immortal.
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Fanaticism comes from any form of chosen blindness accompanying the pursuit of a single dogma.
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The past is the one thing we are not prisoners of. We can do with the past exactly what we wish. What we can’t do is to change its consequences.
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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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It can happen that a book, unlike its authors, grows younger as the years pass.
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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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Post-modernism has cut off the present from all futures. The daily media add to this by cutting off the past. Which means that critical opinion is often orphaned in the present.
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Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.
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Yet nowherein a zoo can a stranger encounter the look of an animal. At the most, the animal’s gaze flickers and passes on. They look sideways. They look blindly beyond.
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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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