Traditional Chinese art looked at the Earth from a Confucian mountain top;
JOHN BERGERThe publicity image steals her love of herself as she is, and offers it back to her for the price of the product.
More John Berger Quotes
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A cigarette is a breathing space. It makes a parenthesis.
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Every painted image of something is also about the absence of the real thing. All painting is about the presence of absence.
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Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.
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Tracing an imaginary line between a cluster of stars gave them an image and an identity.
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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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A peasant becomes fond of his pig and is glad to salt away its pork.
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Matisse did neither. He clashed his colours together like cymbals and the effect was like a lullaby.
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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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Ever since the Greek tragedies, artists have, from time to time, asked themselves how they might influence ongoing political events.
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Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak.
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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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When we suffer anguish we return to early childhood because that is the period in which we first learnt to suffer the experience of total loss.
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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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It is not usually possible in a poem or a story to make the relationship between particular and universal fully explicit. Those who try to do so end up writing parables.
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A drawing is essentially a private work, related only to the artist’s own needs; a ‘finished’ statue or canvas is essentially a public, presented work – related far more directly to the demands of communication.
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