Writers who have neither product utopian trash.
JOHN BERGERWhen we suffer anguish we return to early childhood because that is the period in which we first learnt to suffer the experience of total loss.
More John Berger Quotes
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Without ethics man has no future. This is to say mankind without them cannot be itself.
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My heart born naked was swaddled in lullabies.
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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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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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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 contradiction in perspective was that it structured all images of reality to address a single spectator who, unlike God, could only be in one place at a time.
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Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.
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Traditional Chinese art looked at the Earth from a Confucian mountain top;
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It is seeing which establishes our place in the surrounding world; we explain that world with words, but words can never undo the fact that we are surrounded by it
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A man’s presence suggests what he is capable of doing to you or for you.
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The heart of Paris is like nothing so much as the unending interior of a house.
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Those who first invented and then named the constellations were storytellers.
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Landscapes can be deceptive. Sometimes a landscape seems to be less a setting for the life of its inhabitants than a curtain behind which their struggles, achievements and accidents takes place.
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When he painted a road, the roadmakers were there in his imagination, when he painted the turned earth of a ploughed field, the gesture of the blade turning the earth was included in his own act.
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As Nelson Mandela has pointed out, boycott is not a principle, it is a tactic depending upon circumstances.
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