The animal has secrets which, unlike the secrets of caves, mountains, seas are specifically addressed to man.
JOHN BERGERParis, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.
More John Berger Quotes
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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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It is not an art of the princes or the bourgeoisie. It is popular and vagrant. In the sky of the cinema people learn what they might have been and discover what belongs to them apart from their single lives.
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Compassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural.
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Never again shall a single story be told as though it were the only one.
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Unlike any other visual image, a photograph is not a rendering, an imitation or an interpretation of its subject, but actually a trace of it.
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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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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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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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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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For me, drawing is a lot to do with taking out, with returning to the white of the paper.
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In the modern world, in which thousands of people are dying every hour as a consequence of politics, no writing anywhere can begin to be credible unless it is informed by political awareness and principles.
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It is comparatively easy to achieve a certain unity in a picture by allowing one colour to dominate, or by muting all the colours.
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Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.
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Writers who have neither product utopian trash.
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Fanaticism comes from any form of chosen blindness accompanying the pursuit of a single dogma.
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