The power of the glamorous resides in their supposed happiness: the power of the bureaucrat in his supposed authority.
JOHN BERGERThe heart of Paris is like nothing so much as the unending interior of a house.
More John Berger Quotes
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Fanaticism comes from any form of chosen blindness accompanying the pursuit of a single dogma.
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But toemigrate is always to dismantle the centre of the world, and so to move into a lost, disoriented one of fragments.
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What distinguished man from animals was the human capacity for symbolic thought, the capacity which was inseparable from the development of language in which words were not mere signals, but signifiers of something other than themselves.
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We who draw do so not only to make something observed visible to others, but also to accompany something invisible to its incalculable destination
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I wanted to write about looking at the world, so it’s more about helping people, or persuading people, to see what is around us; both the marvellous and the terrible.
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The relation between what we see and what we know is never settled. Each evening we see the sun set.
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Hair is associated with sexual power. With passion.
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This is not because they are callous or personally inhuman: it is because they live in and accept a society which is incapable of knowing what a human life is worth.
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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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Words are so often used in the opposite sense, as a screen of diversion. It’s the struggle towards truthfulness which is the same whether one is writing a poem, a novel or an argument.
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Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.
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Protest and anger practically always derives from hope, and the shouting out against injustice is always in the hope of those injustices being somewhat corrected and a little more justice established.
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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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Japanese art looked closely around screens; Italian Renaissance art surveyed conquered nature through the window or door-frame of a palace.
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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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