A man’s presence suggests what he is capable of doing to you or for you.
JOHN BERGERMen look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.
More John Berger Quotes
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To remain innocent may also be. to remain ignorant.
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Poetry can repair no loss, but it defies the space which separates. And it does this by its continual labor of reassembling what has been scattered.
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The essence of songs is neither vocal nor cerebral but organic.
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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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Oil painting did to appearances what capital did to social relations. It reduced everything to the equality of objects.
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All photographs are there to remind us of what we forget. In this – as in other ways – they are the opposite of paintings.
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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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Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.
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All creation is in the art of seeing.
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The century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to them, disappear over the horizon.
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Capitalism survives by forcing the majority, whom it exploits, to define their own interests as narrowly as possible.
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Nothing in the nature around us is evil. This needs to be repeated since one of the human ways of talking oneself into inhuman acts is to cite the supposed cruelty of nature.
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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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Art, when it functions like this, becomes a meeting-place of the invisible, the irreducible, the enduring, guts, and honor.
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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.
JOHN BERGER