You are observed with interest but you do not observe with interest – if you do, you will become less enviable. In this respect the envied are like bureaucrats; the more impersonal they are, the greater the illusion (for themselves and for others) of their power.
JOHN BERGER(The sight of it as an object stimulates the use of it as an object.) Nakedness reveals itself. Nudity is placed on display. To be naked is to be without disguises.
More John Berger Quotes
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The opposite of love is not to hate but to separate. If love and hate have something in common it is because, in both cases, their energy is that of bringing and holding together
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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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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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Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.
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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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A peasant becomes fond of his pig and is glad to salt away its pork.
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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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Art, when it functions like this, becomes a meeting-place of the invisible, the irreducible, the enduring, guts, and honor.
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Tracing an imaginary line between a cluster of stars gave them an image and an identity.
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Without ethics man has no future. This is to say mankind without them cannot be itself.
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The woman’s sexual passion needs to be minimized, so that the spectator may feel that he has the monopoly on such passion
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Every city has a sex and an age which have nothing to do with demography. Rome is feminine. So is Odessa. London is a teenager, an urchin, and, in this, hasn’t changed since the time of Dickens. Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.
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The extreme proposition on which Giacometti based all his mature work was that no reality… could ever be shared. This is why he believed it impossible for a work to be finished. This is why the content of any work is not the nature of the figure or head portrayed but the incomplete history of him staring at it.
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For me, drawing is a lot to do with taking out, with returning to the white of the paper.
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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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