We who draw do so not only to make something observed visible to others, but also to accompany something invisible to its incalculable destination
JOHN BERGERIt dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open.
More John Berger Quotes
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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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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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Today the discredit of words is very great.
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What is saved in the cinema when it achieves art is a spontaneous continuity with all mankind.
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This determines not only most relations between men and women but also the relation of women to themselves.
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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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What any true painting touches is an absence – an absence of which without the painting, we might be unaware. And that would be our loss.
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Picasso drawings are like that… the Rembrandts are like that. The artist who most often did that was Van Gogh.
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Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.
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Never again shall a single story be told as though it were the only one.
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What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time.
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Traditional Chinese art looked at the Earth from a Confucian mountain top;
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I wanted to write about looking at the world, so it’s more about helping people, or persuading people, to see what is around us; both the marvellous and the terrible.
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The strange power of art is sometimes it can show that what people have in common is more urgent than what differentiates them. It seems to me it’s something that theatre can do, but it’s rare; it’s very rare.
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The envied are like bureaucrats; the more impersonal they are, the greater the illusion (for themselves and for others) of their power.
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