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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

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Degas was obsessed by the art of classical ballet, because to him it said something about the human condition. He was not a balletomane looking for an alternative world to escape into. Dance offered him a display in which he could find, after much searching, certain human secrets.

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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.

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The human quality Degas most admired was endurance.

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It can happen that a book, unlike its authors, grows younger as the years pass.

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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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'Fahrenheit 9/11' is astounding. Not so much as a film - although it is cunning and moving - but as an event.

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Propaganda requires a permanent network of communication so that it can systematically stifle reflection with emotive or utopian slogans. Its pace is usually fast.

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Propaganda invariably serves the long-term interests of some elite.

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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

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Artist

Born: November 5th, 1926

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