The relation between what we see and what we know is never settled. Each evening we see the sun set.
JOHN BERGERThe spectator-buyer is meant to envy herself as she will become if she buys the product.
More John Berger Quotes
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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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Every authentic poem contributes to the labour of poetry… to bring together what life has separated or violence has torn apart.
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The unsung, impersonal world remains outside, on the other surface of a placenta. All songs, even when their content or rendering is strongly masculine, operate maternally.
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Tracing an imaginary line between a cluster of stars gave them an image and an identity.
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Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.
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Deep in the nature of theatre is a sense of ritual. The cinema, by contrast, transports its audience individually, singly, out of the theatre towards the unknown.
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To be naked is to be oneself.
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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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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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The animal has secrets which, unlike the secrets of caves, mountains, seas are specifically addressed to man.
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Matisse did neither. He clashed his colours together like cymbals and the effect was like a lullaby.
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For the artist, drawing is discovery. And that is not just a slick phrase; it is quite literally true.
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Oil painting did to appearances what capital did to social relations. It reduced everything to the equality of objects.
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Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity.
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If the public photograph contributes to a memory, it is to the memory of an unknowable and total stranger.
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