Ours is the century of enforced travel of disappearances.
JOHN BERGERYet nowherein a zoo can a stranger encounter the look of an animal. At the most, the animal’s gaze flickers and passes on. They look sideways. They look blindly beyond.
More John Berger Quotes
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This determines not only most relations between men and women but also the relation of women to themselves.
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Ever since the Greek tragedies, artists have, from time to time, asked themselves how they might influence ongoing political events.
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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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In the average European oil painting of the nude the principal protagonist is never painted. He is the spectator in front of the picture and he is presumed to be a man.
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The power of the glamorous resides in their supposed happiness: the power of the bureaucrat in his supposed authority.
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At times failure is very necessary for the artist. It reminds him that failure is not the ultimate disaster. And this reminder liberates him from the mean fussing of perfectionism.
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Whenever the intensity of looking reaches a certain degree, one becomes aware of an equally intense energy coming towards one through the appearance of whatever it is one is scrutinizing.
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What is saved in the cinema when it achieves art is a spontaneous continuity with all mankind.
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If everything that existed were continually being photographed, every photograph would become meaningless.
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I use charcoal a lot. Partly because it has such a fantastic range but also because it is very easy to erase.
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Yet the first symbols were animals. What distinguished men from animals was born of their relationship with them.
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Never again shall a single story be told as though it were the only one.
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Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.
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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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Fanaticism comes from any form of chosen blindness accompanying the pursuit of a single dogma.
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