History always constitutes the relation between a present and its past. Consequently fear of the present leads to mystification of the past
John BergerA drawing is an autobiographical record of one's discovery of an event - either seen, remembered or imagined. A 'finished' work is an attempt to construct an event in itself.
John BergerTo be naked is to be oneself. To be nude is to be seen naked by others and yet not recognised for oneself.
John BergerWhat distinguished man from animals was the human capacity for symbolic thought, the capacity which was inseparable from the development of language in which words were not mere signals, but signifiers of something other than themselves. Yet the first symbols were animals. What distinguished men from animals was born of their relationship with them.
John Berger