John Berger Quotes About Mountain

Quotes about: Mountain

• The impulse to paint comes neither from observation nor from the soul (which is probably blind) but from an encounter: the encounter between painter and model: even if the model is a mountain or a shelf of empty medicine bottles.

  John Berger

  Medicine, Soul, Mountain

  John Berger (1995). “Adventure of painting”

• Traditional Chinese art looked at the Earth from a Confucian mountain top; Japanese art looked closely around screens; Italian Renaissance art surveyed conquered nature through the window or door-frame of a palace. For the Cro-Magnons, space is a metaphysical arena of continually intermittent appearances and disappearances.

  John Berger

  Art, Italian, Space

  "Past present" by John Berger, www.theguardian.com. October 12, 2002.

• The animal has secrets which, unlike the secrets of caves, mountains, seas are specifically addressed to man.

  John Berger

  Animal, Men, Sea

  John Berger (2015). “About Looking”, p.5, Bloomsbury Publishing

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