One of the fundamental reasons why so many doctors become cynical and disillusioned is precisely because, when the abstract idealism has worn thin, they are uncertain about the value of the actual lives of the patients they are treating.
JOHN BERGERThe zoo cannot but disappoint.
More John Berger Quotes
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Matisse did neither. He clashed his colours together like cymbals and the effect was like a lullaby.
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One can say of language that it is potentially the only human home, the only dwelling place that cannot be hostile to man.
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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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What is significant, and is so difficult for the urban stranger to understand, is that the two statements are connected by an and not by a but.
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This determines not only most relations between men and women but also the relation of women to themselves.
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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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For the artist, drawing is discovery. And that is not just a slick phrase; it is quite literally true.
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To remain innocent may also be. to remain ignorant.
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Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time has become Death triumphant over all.
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The publicity image steals her love of herself as she is, and offers it back to her for the price of the product.
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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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We follow songs in order to be enclosed. We find ourselves inside a message.
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For the Cro-Magnons, space is a metaphysical arena of continually intermittent appearances and disappearances.
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Propaganda requires a permanent network of communication so that it can systematically stifle reflection with emotive or utopian slogans. Its pace is usually fast.
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The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich.
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