The zoo cannot but disappoint. The public purpose of zoos is to offer visitors the opportunity of looking at animals.
JOHN BERGERBut toemigrate is always to dismantle the centre of the world, and so to move into a lost, disoriented one of fragments.
More John Berger Quotes
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Writers who have neither product utopian trash.
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Deep in the nature of theatre is a sense of ritual. The cinema, by contrast, transports its audience individually, singly, out of the theatre towards the unknown.
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These contradictions both hide and increase the natural ambiguity of the photographic image.
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We never look at just one thing; we are always looking at the relation between things and ourselves.
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All weddings are similar, but every marriage is different.
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Hair is associated with sexual power. With passion.
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There’s the artist’s intimacy and truthfulness to himself, but an equal intimacy to the Other [the one drawn].
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We only see what we look at. To look is an act of choice.
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Japanese art looked closely around screens; Italian Renaissance art surveyed conquered nature through the window or door-frame of a palace.
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Photography, because it stops the flow of life, is always flirting with death.
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Your lips, beloved, are like a honeycomb: honey and milk are under the tongue. And the smell of your clothes is like the smell of my home.
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What is significant, and is so difficult for the urban stranger to understand, is that the two statements are connected by an and not by a but.
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The human imagination… has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist practice or philosophy.
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The publicity image steals her love of herself as she is, and offers it back to her for the price of the product.
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Without ethics man has no future. This is to say mankind without them cannot be itself.
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