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 BERGERTo be naked is to be oneself.
More John Berger Quotes
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Compassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural.
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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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All photographs are there to remind us of what we forget. In this – as in other ways – they are the opposite of paintings.
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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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Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.
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Fanaticism comes from any form of chosen blindness accompanying the pursuit of a single dogma.
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A drawing is essentially a private work, related only to the artist’s own needs; a ‘finished’ statue or canvas is essentially a public, presented work – related far more directly to the demands of communication.
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For those who are behind the curtain, landmarks are no longer only geographic but also biographical and personal
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We only see what we look at. To look is an act of choice.
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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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When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls.
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It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open.
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The animal has secrets which, unlike the secrets of caves, mountains, seas are specifically addressed to man.
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Later alone it wore poems for clothes. Like a shirt I carried on my back the poetry I had read. So I lived for half a century until wordlessly we met. From my shirt on the back of the chair I learn tonight how many years of learning by heart I waited for you.
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The power of the glamorous resides in their supposed happiness: the power of the bureaucrat in his supposed authority.
JOHN BERGER