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John Berger
John Berger
English Artist
Born: Nov 5, 1926
Died: Jan 2, 2017
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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. John Berger
Work Needs Communication Finished Own Related Drawing Statue More Only Directly Demands Private Artist Essentially Canvas Public Far Presented
In drawing after drawing, pastel after pastel, painting after painting, the contours of Degas's dancing figures become, at a certain point, darkly insistent, tangled and dusky. It may be around an elbow, a heel, an armpit, a calf muscle, the nape of a neck. John Berger
Become Painting Dancing Drawing Insistent Point Calf Around Tangled May After Elbow Heel Certain Certain Point Figures Muscle Neck
The industrial society... recognises nothing except the power to acquire... No other kind of hope or satisfaction or pleasure can any longer be envisaged within the culture of capitalism. John Berger
Hope Capitalism Culture Power Nothing Society Other Pleasure Recognises Kind Except Longer Envisaged Industrial Within Any Acquire Satisfaction
It can happen that a book, unlike its authors, grows younger as the years pass. John Berger
Book Unlike Pass Years Authors Happen Younger Grows
Ever since the Greek tragedies, artists have, from time to time, asked themselves how they might influence ongoing political events. John Berger
Time Events Political Ongoing Since How Tragedies Greek From Time To Time Artists Influence Might Themselves Asked Ever
'Fahrenheit 9/11' is astounding. Not so much as a film - although it is cunning and moving - but as an event. John Berger
Astounding Although Cunning Moving Much Event Film
Propaganda requires a permanent network of communication so that it can systematically stifle reflection with emotive or utopian slogans. Its pace is usually fast. John Berger
Communication Reflection Systematically Slogans Propaganda Network Emotive Permanent Stifle Pace Requires Fast Utopian
Boycott is not a principle. When it becomes one, it itself risks becoming exclusive and racist. No boycott, in our sense of the term, should be directed against an individual, a people, or a nation as such. John Berger
Risks People Nation Sense Our Directed Individual Term Exclusive Principle Becomes Becoming Boycott Itself Against Should
The Cro-Magnons lived with fear and amazement in a culture of Arrival, facing many mysteries. Their culture lasted for some 20,000 years. John Berger
Culture Fear Mysteries Lasted Some Facing Amazement Arrival Years Many Lived
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