In the modern world, in which thousands of people are dying every hour as a consequence of politics, no writing anywhere can begin to be credible unless it is informed by political awareness and principles.
JOHN BERGERThis determines not only most relations between men and women but also the relation of women to themselves.
More John Berger Quotes
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You painted a naked woman because you enjoyed looking at her, put a mirror in her hand and you called the painting “Vanity,” thus morally condemning the woman whose nakedness you had depicted for you own pleasure.
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What is to happen next will take place within the four walls of the story. And this is possible because the story’s voice makes everything its own.
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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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We follow songs in order to be enclosed. We find ourselves inside a message.
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Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.
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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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It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open.
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The time of a cigarette is a parenthesis, and if it is shared, you are both in that parenthesis. Its like a proscenium arch for a dialogue.
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Photographs bear witness to a human choice being exercised in a given situation.
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Ours is the century of enforced travel of disappearances.
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Ever since the Greek tragedies, artists have, from time to time, asked themselves how they might influence ongoing political events.
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Post-modernism has cut off the present from all futures. The daily media add to this by cutting off the past. Which means that critical opinion is often orphaned in the present.
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To live and die amongst foreigners may seem less absurd than to live persecuted or tortured by one’s fellow countrymen….
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Never chain your dogs together with sausages. One must accustom one’s self to be bored.
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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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