Ways of seeing - John Berger

This quote was added by user55001
To be an exception a painter whose vision had been formed by the tradition, and who had probably studied as an apprentice or student from the age of sixteen, needed to recognize his version for what it was, and then to separate it from the usage for which it had been developed. Single-handed he had to contest the norms of the art that had formed him. He had to see himself as a painter in a way that denied the seeing of a painter. This meant that he saw himself doing something that nobody else co.

Train on this quote


Rate this quote:
2.5 out of 5 based on 30 ratings.

Edit Text

Edit author and title

(Changes are manually reviewed)

or just leave a comment:


Test your skills, take the Typing Test.

Score (WPM) distribution for this quote. More.

Best scores for this typing test

Name WPM Accuracy
eweclear 141.29 98.6%
user266672 137.79 99.6%
wolfram 135.31 95.1%
stormspirit97 130.98 95.6%
user427627 116.79 99.2%
jpadtyping 115.92 95.4%
klgrass84 113.01 97.3%
iltranscendent 110.33 95.6%
ocean.side 109.89 99.4%
gela13 109.08 95.3%

Recently for

Name WPM Accuracy
john_smith 88.25 99.6%
user99057 82.97 90.3%
iltranscendent 110.33 95.6%
user109145 39.86 84.3%
vishal 81.89 94.2%
zaggiek. 47.51 94.5%
s1owpoke 61.03 98.0%
user109555 27.28 92.3%