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 BERGERWhen 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.
More John Berger Quotes
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Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak.
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To be desired is perhaps the closest anybody in this life can reach to feeling immortal.
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Buildings become furniture, courtyards become carpets and arrases, the streets are like galleries, the boulevards conservatories. It is a house, one or two centuries old, rich, bourgeois, distinguished. The only way of going out, or shutting the door behind you, is to leave the centre.
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The human imagination… has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist practice or philosophy.
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All creation is in the art of seeing.
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For those who are behind the curtain, landmarks are no longer only geographic but also biographical and personal
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That we find a crystal or a poppy beautiful means that we are less alone, that we are more deeply inserted into existence than the course of a single life would lead us to believe.
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What is saved in the cinema when it achieves art is a spontaneous continuity with all mankind.
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Paintings record what the painter remembers. Because each one of us forgets different things, a photo more than a painting may change its meaning according to who is looking at it.
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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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All weddings are similar, but every marriage is different.
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Advertising is not merely an assembly of competing messages; it is a language itself which is always being used to make the same general proposal
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The zoo cannot but disappoint. The public purpose of zoos is to offer visitors the opportunity of looking at animals.
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We only see what we look at. To look is an act of choice.
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Writers who have neither product utopian trash.
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