Matisse did neither. He clashed his colours together like cymbals and the effect was like a lullaby.
JOHN BERGERHair is associated with sexual power. With passion.
More John Berger Quotes
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It is seeing which establishes our place in the surrounding world; we explain that world with words, but words can never undo the fact that we are surrounded by it
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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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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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Yet the first symbols were animals. What distinguished men from animals was born of their relationship with them.
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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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When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls.
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Japanese art looked closely around screens; Italian Renaissance art surveyed conquered nature through the window or door-frame of a palace.
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To remain innocent may also be. to remain ignorant.
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We follow songs in order to be enclosed. We find ourselves inside a message.
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All creation is in the art of seeing.
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The publicity image steals her love of herself as she is, and offers it back to her for the price of the product.
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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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Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time has become Death triumphant over all.
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It is not usually possible in a poem or a story to make the relationship between particular and universal fully explicit. Those who try to do so end up writing parables.
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Every authentic poem contributes to the labour of poetry… to bring together what life has separated or violence has torn apart.
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