I use charcoal a lot. Partly because it has such a fantastic range but also because it is very easy to erase.
JOHN BERGERWithout ethics man has no future. This is to say mankind without them cannot be itself.
More John Berger Quotes
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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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The century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to them, disappear over the horizon.
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Whenever he looked he saw the labour of existence; and this labour, recognised as such, was what constituted reality for him. (On Vincent Van Gogh)
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The power of the glamorous resides in their supposed happiness: the power of the bureaucrat in his supposed authority.
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The animal has secrets which, unlike the secrets of caves, mountains, seas are specifically addressed to man.
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Everything became exchangeable because everything became a commodity.
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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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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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A photograph is a meeting place where the interests of the photographer, the photographed, the viewer and those who are using the photograph are often contradictory.
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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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Fanaticism comes from any form of chosen blindness accompanying the pursuit of a single dogma.
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Later alone it wore poems for clothes. Like a shirt I carried on my back the poetry I had read. So I lived for half a century until wordlessly we met. From my shirt on the back of the chair I learn tonight how many years of learning by heart I waited for you.
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Yet nowherein a zoo can a stranger encounter the look of an animal. At the most, the animal’s gaze flickers and passes on. They look sideways. They look blindly beyond.
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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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The relation between what we see and what we know is never settled. Each evening we see the sun set.
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