If every event which occurred could be given a name, there would be no need for stories.
JOHN BERGERCompassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural.
More John Berger Quotes
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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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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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The camera relieves us of the burden of memory.
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Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak.
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She is meant to imagine herself transformed by the product into an object of envy for others, an envy which will then justify her loving herself.
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Painting is something that you need to do, if not every day, then certainly most days. It is almost like being a pianist: if you stop, you lose something.
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Without ethics man has no future. This is to say mankind without them cannot be itself.
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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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Photography, because it stops the flow of life, is always flirting with death.
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Hair is associated with sexual power. With passion.
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At times failure is very necessary for the artist. It reminds him that failure is not the ultimate disaster. And this reminder liberates him from the mean fussing of perfectionism.
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Compare the cinema with theatre. Both are dramatic arts. Theatre brings actors before a public and every night during the season they re-enact the same drama.
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The essence of songs is neither vocal nor cerebral but organic.
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Emigration, forced or chosen, across national frontiers or from village to metropolis, is the quintessential experience of our time.
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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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