Without ethics man has no future. This is to say mankind without them cannot be itself.
JOHN BERGERThe happiness of being envied is glamour. Being envied is a solitary form of reassurance. It depends precisely upon not sharing your experience with those who envy you.
More John Berger Quotes
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Those who first invented and then named the constellations were storytellers.
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A drawing is essentially a private work, related only to the artist’s own needs; a ‘finished’ statue or canvas is essentially a public, presented work – related far more directly to the demands of communication.
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If the public photograph contributes to a memory, it is to the memory of an unknowable and total stranger.
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The century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to them, disappear over the horizon.
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Your lips, beloved, are like a honeycomb: honey and milk are under the tongue. And the smell of your clothes is like the smell of my home.
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Picasso drawings are like that… the Rembrandts are like that. The artist who most often did that was Van Gogh.
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My heart born naked was swaddled in lullabies.
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All photographs are there to remind us of what we forget. In this – as in other ways – they are the opposite of paintings.
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We only see what we look at. To look is an act of choice.
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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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What do drawings mean to me? I really don’t know. The activity absorbs me. I forget everything else in a way that I don’t think happens with any other activity.
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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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Pleasure and pain need to be considered together; they are inseparable. Yet the space filled by each is perhaps different. Pleasure, defined as a sense of gratification, is essential for nature
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To be naked is to be oneself. To be nude is to be seen naked by others and yet not recognized for oneself. A naked body has to be seen as an object in order to become a nude.
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Ever since the Greek tragedies, artists have, from time to time, asked themselves how they might influence ongoing political events.
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