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Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion.

~John Berger

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Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time has become Death triumphant over all.

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Post-modernism has cut off the present from all futures. The daily media add to this by cutting off the past. Which means that critical opinion is often orphaned in the present.

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I wanted to write about looking at the world, so it's more about helping people, or persuading people, to see what is around us; both the marvellous and the terrible.

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When I was about seven, one or two people encouraged me, and art became an enormous and important refuge. By adolescence, I was absolutely passionate about it and felt those paintings and those painters, whether they lived a few hundred years ago or were still alive, were somehow my companions.

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I actually think of myself as quite a shy person, although I know I give the impression of someone much more confident. I think what I do have is a capacity to listen to the other, even if the other is an opponent. That leads, in all senses of the word, to an engagement.

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Painting is something that you need to do, if not every day, then certainly most days. It is almost like being a pianist: if you stop, you lose something.

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Until 1954, I'd only ever thought of being a painter, but I earned my money when and where I could. You could say I drifted into writing.

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The autobiographical doesn't interest me. I could think of few things less interesting than rooting about in my life.

~John Berger

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A line, an area of tone, is not really important because it records what you have seen, but because of what it will lead you on to see. Following up its logic in order to check its accuracy, you find confirmation or denial in the object itself or in your memory of it.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Artist

Born: November 5th, 1926

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