But toemigrate is always to dismantle the centre of the world, and so to move into a lost, disoriented one of fragments.
JOHN BERGERThe woman’s sexual passion needs to be minimized, so that the spectator may feel that he has the monopoly on such passion
More John Berger Quotes
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Ethics determine choices and actions and suggest difficult priorities.
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Drawing is a way of coming upon the connection between things, just like metaphor in poetry reconnects what has become separated.
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Tracing an imaginary line between a cluster of stars gave them an image and an identity.
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One of the fundamental reasons why so many doctors become cynical and disillusioned is precisely because, when the abstract idealism has worn thin, they are uncertain about the value of the actual lives of the patients they are treating.
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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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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.
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Do you know the legend about cicadas? They say they are the souls of poets who cannot keep quiet because, when they were alive, they never wrote the poems they wanted to.
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Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.
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Traditional Chinese art looked at the Earth from a Confucian mountain top;
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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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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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Compassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural.
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It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open.
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The strange power of art is sometimes it can show that what people have in common is more urgent than what differentiates them. It seems to me it’s something that theatre can do, but it’s rare; it’s very rare.
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For the artist, drawing is discovery. And that is not just a slick phrase; it is quite literally true.
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