Quotes from berger john iii

Is boredom anything less than the sense of one's faculties slowly dying?

Why should an artist's way of looking at the world have any meaning for us? Why does it give us pleasure? Because, I believe, it increases our awareness of our own potentiality.

We who draw do so not only to make something observed visible to others, but also to accompany something invisible to its incalculable destination.

Photographs bear witness to a human choice being exercised in a given situation. A photograph is a result of the photographer's decision that it is worth recording that this particular event or this particular object has been seen. If everything that existed were continually being photographed, every photograph would become meaningless.

You can plan events, but if they go according to your plan they are not events.

My knowledge tends to lead me to the conclusion that miracles do exist, that a man's life can be completely transformed. Perhaps fate is just an accident, but the important point is that it is beyond anybody's control. It happens to them. It can still happen to me. It is possible that my fate is still to be decided.

Our mistake has been to categorize things as art by considering certain phases of the process of creation. But logically this can make all man-made objects art. It is more useful to categorize art by what has become its social function. It functions as property.

Your lips, beloved, taste like a honeycomb: honey and milk are under your tongue.

Those who dismiss names as a detail have never been displaced.

We follow songs in order to be enclosed. We find ourselves inside a message. The unsung, impersonal world remains outside, on the other surface of a placenta. All songs, even when their content or rendering is strongly masculine, operate maternally.

To be born a woman has been to be born, within an allotted and confined space, into the keeping of men.

He clashed his colors together like cymbals and the effect was like a lullaby.