For the artist, drawing is discovery. And that is not just a slick phrase; it is quite literally true.
JOHN BERGERThe 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
More John Berger Quotes
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She is meant to imagine herself transformed by the product into an object of envy for others, an envy which will then justify her loving herself.
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No painting or drawing, however naturalist, belongs to its subject in the way that a photograph does.
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The zoo cannot but disappoint.
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Between the experience of living a normal life at this moment on the planet and the public narratives being offered to give a sense to that life, the empty space, the gap, is enormous.
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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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History always constitutes the relation between a present and its past. Consequently fear of the present leads to mystification of the past
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Without ethics man has no future. This is to say mankind without them cannot be itself.
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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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A tactic which allows people, as distinct from their elected but often craven governments, to apply a certain pressure on those wielding power in what they, the boycotters, consider to be an unjust or immoral way.
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Advertising is not merely an assembly of competing messages; it is a language itself which is always being used to make the same general proposal
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To be naked is to be oneself.
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Oil painting did to appearances what capital did to social relations. It reduced everything to the equality of objects.
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The extreme proposition on which Giacometti based all his mature work was that no reality… could ever be shared. This is why he believed it impossible for a work to be finished. This is why the content of any work is not the nature of the figure or head portrayed but the incomplete history of him staring at it.
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I use charcoal a lot. Partly because it has such a fantastic range but also because it is very easy to erase.
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The woman’s sexual passion needs to be minimized, so that the spectator may feel that he has the monopoly on such passion
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