For me, drawing is a lot to do with taking out, with returning to the white of the paper.
JOHN BERGERThe zoo cannot but disappoint.
More John Berger Quotes
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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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The relation between what we see and what we know is never settled. Each evening we see the sun set.
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A man’s presence suggests what he is capable of doing to you or for you.
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Protest and anger practically always derives from hope, and the shouting out against injustice is always in the hope of those injustices being somewhat corrected and a little more justice established.
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All creation is in the art of seeing.
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Nakedness reveals itself. Nudity is placed on display. The nude is condemned to never being naked. Nudity is a form of dress.
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Without ethics man has no future. This is to say mankind without them cannot be itself.
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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.
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Capitalism survives by forcing the majority, whom it exploits, to define their own interests as narrowly as possible.
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[O]ften art has judged the judges, pleaded revenge to the innocent and shown to the future what the past suffered, so that it has never been forgotten.
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Fanaticism comes from any form of chosen blindness accompanying the pursuit of a single dogma.
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A peasant becomes fond of his pig and is glad to salt away its pork.
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A photograph is a meeting place where the interests of the photographer, the photographed, the viewer and those who are using the photograph are often contradictory.
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The camera relieves us of the burden of memory. It surveys us like God, and it surveys for us. Yet no other god has been so cynical, for the camera records in order to forget.
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Art, when it functions like this, becomes a meeting-place of the invisible, the irreducible, the enduring, guts, and honor.
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