This determines not only most relations between men and women but also the relation of women to themselves.
JOHN BERGERA tactic which allows people, as distinct from their elected but often craven governments, to apply a certain pressure on those wielding power in what they, the boycotters, consider to be an unjust or immoral way.
More John Berger Quotes
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Picasso drawings are like that… the Rembrandts are like that. The artist who most often did that was Van Gogh.
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A man’s presence suggests what he is capable of doing to you or for you.
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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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We never look at just one thing; we are always looking at the relation between things and ourselves.
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If everything that existed were continually being photographed, every photograph would become meaningless.
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We can become anything. That is why injustice is impossible here. There may be the accident of birth, there is no accident of death. Nothing forces us to remain what we were.
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The strange power of art is sometimes it can show that what people have in common is more urgent than what differentiates them. It seems to me it’s something that theatre can do, but it’s rare; it’s very rare.
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Do you know the legend about cicadas? They say they are the souls of poets who cannot keep quiet because, when they were alive, they never wrote the poems they wanted to.
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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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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 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.
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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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Ethics determine choices and actions and suggest difficult priorities.
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Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.
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Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.
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