At times failure is very necessary for the artist. It reminds him that failure is not the ultimate disaster. And this reminder liberates him from the mean fussing of perfectionism.
JOHN BERGERWe know that the earth is turning away from it. Yet the knowledge, the explanation, never quite fits the sight.
More John Berger Quotes
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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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We only see what we look at. To look is an act of choice.
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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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Whenever the intensity of looking reaches a certain degree, one becomes aware of an equally intense energy coming towards one through the appearance of whatever it is one is scrutinizing.
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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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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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Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion.
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Ours is the century of enforced travel of disappearances.
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As Nelson Mandela has pointed out, boycott is not a principle, it is a tactic depending upon circumstances.
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Every authentic poem contributes to the labor of poetry… to bring together what life has separated or violence has torn apart…
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When he painted a road, the roadmakers were there in his imagination, when he painted the turned earth of a ploughed field, the gesture of the blade turning the earth was included in his own act.
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We never look at just one thing; we are always looking at the relation between things and ourselves.
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Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.
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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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I can’t tell you what art does and how it does it, but I know that often art has judged the judges, pleaded revenge to the innocent and shown to the future what the past suffered, so that it has never been forgotten.
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