The century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to them, disappear over the horizon.
JOHN BERGERHair is associated with sexual power. With passion.
More John Berger Quotes
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The essence of songs is neither vocal nor cerebral but organic.
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Landscapes can be deceptive. Sometimes a landscape seems to be less a setting for the life of its inhabitants than a curtain behind which their struggles, achievements and accidents takes place.
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Nothing in the nature around us is evil. This needs to be repeated since one of the human ways of talking oneself into inhuman acts is to cite the supposed cruelty of nature.
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Without ethics man has no future. This is to say mankind without them cannot be itself.
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The true content of a photograph is invisible, for it derives from a play, not with form, but with time.
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For the artist, drawing is discovery. And that is not just a slick phrase; it is quite literally true.
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A peasant becomes fond of his pig and is glad to salt away its pork.
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The zoo cannot but disappoint.
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A drawing is an autobiographical record of one’s discovery of an event – either seen, remembered or imagined. A ‘finished’ work is an attempt to construct an event in itself.
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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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We who draw do so not only to make something observed visible to others, but also to accompany something invisible to its incalculable destination
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Every painted image of something is also about the absence of the real thing. All painting is about the presence of absence.
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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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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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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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