For the Cro-Magnons, space is a metaphysical arena of continually intermittent appearances and disappearances.
JOHN BERGERHope is a contraband passed from hand to hand and story to story.
More John Berger Quotes
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One of the fundamental reasons why so many doctors become cynical and disillusioned is precisely because, when the abstract idealism has worn thin, they are uncertain about the value of the actual lives of the patients they are treating.
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Compare the cinema with theatre. Both are dramatic arts. Theatre brings actors before a public and every night during the season they re-enact the same drama.
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Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.
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The woman’s sexual passion needs to be minimized, so that the spectator may feel that he has the monopoly on such passion
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The spectator-buyer is meant to envy herself as she will become if she buys the product.
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The true content of a photograph is invisible, for it derives from a play, not with form, but with time.
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Those who first invented and then named the constellations were storytellers.
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To be naked is to be oneself. To be nude is to be seen naked by others and yet not recognised for oneself.
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I wanted to write about looking at the world, so it’s more about helping people, or persuading people, to see what is around us; both the marvellous and the terrible.
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When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls.
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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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The zoo cannot but disappoint. The public purpose of zoos is to offer visitors the opportunity of looking at animals.
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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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It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open.
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The animal has secrets which, unlike the secrets of caves, mountains, seas are specifically addressed to man.
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