Hair is associated with sexual power. With passion.
JOHN BERGER
JOHN BERGER
John Berger on hair
“Hair is associated with sexual power. With passion.”
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It is seeing which establishes our place in the surrounding world; we explain that world with words, but words can never undo the fact that we are surrounded by it
John BergerJohn Berger Do you know the legend about cicadas? They say they are the souls of poets who cannot keep quiet because, when they were alive, they never wrote the poems they wanted to.
John BergerJohn Berger The essence of songs is neither vocal nor cerebral but organic.
John BergerJohn Berger The spectator-buyer is meant to envy herself as she will become if she buys the product.
John BergerJohn Berger All creation is in the art of seeing.
John BergerJohn Berger Picasso drawings are like that… the Rembrandts are like that. The artist who most often did that was Van Gogh.
John BergerJohn Berger Yet the first symbols were animals. What distinguished men from animals was born of their relationship with them.
John BergerJohn Berger The impulse to paint comes neither from observation nor from the soul (which is probably blind) but from an encounter: the encounter between painter and model: even if the model is a mountain or a shelf of empty medicine bottles.
John BergerJohn Berger Never again shall a single story be told as though it were the only one.
John BergerJohn Berger If the public photograph contributes to a memory, it is to the memory of an unknowable and total stranger.
John BergerJohn Berger What is saved in the cinema when it achieves art is a spontaneous continuity with all mankind.
John BergerJohn Berger The strange power of art is sometimes it can show that what people have in common is more urgent than what differentiates them. It seems to me it’s something that theatre can do, but it’s rare; it’s very rare.
John BergerJohn Berger 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 BergerJohn Berger Photography, because it stops the flow of life, is always flirting with death.
John BergerJohn Berger Ours is the century of enforced travel of disappearances.
John BergerJohn Berger Drawing is a way of coming upon the connection between things, just like metaphor in poetry reconnects what has become separated.
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