I use charcoal a lot. Partly because it has such a fantastic range but also because it is very easy to erase.
JOHN BERGERThe zoo cannot but disappoint.
More John Berger Quotes
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The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.
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Painting is something that you need to do, if not every day, then certainly most days. It is almost like being a pianist: if you stop, you lose something.
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The spectator-buyer is meant to envy herself as she will become if she buys the product.
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The impulse to paint comes neither from observation nor from the soul (which is probably blind) but from an encounter: the encounter between painter and model: even if the model is a mountain or a shelf of empty medicine bottles.
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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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When we suffer anguish we return to early childhood because that is the period in which we first learnt to suffer the experience of total loss.
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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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Today the discredit of words is very great.
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My heart born naked was swaddled in lullabies.
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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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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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Whenever the intensity of looking reaches a certain degree, one becomes aware of an equally intense energy coming towards one through the appearance of whatever it is one is scrutinizing.
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As Nelson Mandela has pointed out, boycott is not a principle, it is a tactic depending upon circumstances.
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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 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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