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 BergerBetween the experience of living a normal life at this moment on the planet and the public narratives being offered to give a sense to that life, the empty space, the gap, is enormous.
John BergerThe publicity image steals her love of herself as she is, and offers it back to her for the price of the product.
John BergerFanaticism comes from any form of chosen blindness accompanying the pursuit of a single dogma.
John Berger