I can't tell you what art does and how it does it, but I know that often art has judged the judges, pleaded revenge to the innocent and shown to the future what the past suffered, so that it has never been forgotten. Art, when it functions like this, becomes a meeting-place of the invisible, the irreducible, the enduring, guts, and honor.
John BergerDrawing is a way of coming upon the connection between things, just like metaphor in poetry reconnects what has become separated.
John BergerThe envied are like bureaucrats; the more impersonal they are, the greater the illusion (for themselves and for others) of their power.
John BergerPropaganda requires a permanent network of communication so that it can systematically stifle reflection with emotive or utopian slogans. Its pace is usually fast.
John Berger