Today the discredit of words is very great.
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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The zoo cannot but disappoint.
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Post-modernism has cut off the present from all futures. The daily media add to this by cutting off the past. Which means that critical opinion is often orphaned in the present.
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Advertising is not merely an assembly of competing messages; it is a language itself which is always being used to make the same general proposal
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Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.
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What any true painting touches is an absence – an absence of which without the painting, we might be unaware. And that would be our loss.
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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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If everything that existed were continually being photographed, every photograph would become meaningless.
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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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Tracing an imaginary line between a cluster of stars gave them an image and an identity.
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Everything in life, is a question of drawing a life, John, and you have to decide for yourself where to draw it.
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Poetry can repair no loss, but it defies the space which separates. And it does this by its continual labor of reassembling what has been scattered.
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Nakedness reveals itself. Nudity is placed on display. The nude is condemned to never being naked. Nudity is a form of dress.
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A drawing is an autobiographical record of one’s discovery of an event – either seen, remembered or imagined. A ‘finished’ work is an attempt to construct an event in itself.
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It was more than that. It was the period in which we suffered more total losses than in all the rest of our life put together.
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Traditional Chinese art looked at the Earth from a Confucian mountain top;
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