John Berger Art Quotes - (5 quotes)

John Berger - From the Drawing category:

What do drawings mean to me? I really don't know. The activity absorbs me. I forget everything else in a way that I don't think happens with any other activity... (John Berger)

John Berger - From the Finishing category:

The extreme proposition on which Giacometti based all his mature work was that no reality... could ever be shared. This is why he believed it impossible for a work to be finished. This is why the content of any work is not the nature of the figure or head portrayed but the incomplete history of him staring at it. (John Berger)

John Berger - From the Intimacy category:

There's the artist's intimacy and truthfulness to himself, but an equal intimacy to the Other [the one drawn]. Picasso drawings are like that... the Rembrandts are like that. The artist who most often did that was Van Gogh. (John Berger)

John Berger - From the Mediums category:

I use charcoal a lot. Partly because it has such a fantastic range but also because it is very easy to erase. For me, drawing is a lot to do with taking out, with returning to the white of the paper. (John Berger)

John Berger - From the Solitude category:

Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form. (John Berger)