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  1. John Berger _ The Shape of a Pocket

    The collaboration which sometimes follows is seldom based on good will: usually on desire, rage, fear, pity or longing. The modern illusion concerning painting {which post-modernism has done nothing to correct} is that the artist is the creator. Rather he is a reciever. What seems like creaton is the act of giving form to what he has recieved.
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  2. John Berger _ The Shape of a Pocket

    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.
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  3. John Berger _ The Shape of a Pocket

    What any true painting touches is an absence - an absence of which without the painting, we might be unaware. And that would be our loss.
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