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 BERGERParis, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.
More John Berger Quotes
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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.
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You can plan events, but if they go according to your plan they are not events.
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The opposite of love is not to hate but to separate. If love and hate have something in common it is because, in both cases, their energy is that of bringing and holding together
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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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To be naked is to be oneself. To be nude is to be seen naked by others and yet not recognised for oneself.
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Ethics determine choices and actions and suggest difficult priorities.
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Tracing an imaginary line between a cluster of stars gave them an image and an identity.
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The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.
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For the Cro-Magnons, space is a metaphysical arena of continually intermittent appearances and disappearances.
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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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The camera relieves us of the burden of memory.
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What any true painting touches is an absence – an absence of which without the painting, we might be unaware. And that would be our loss.
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Traditional Chinese art looked at the Earth from a Confucian mountain top;
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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.
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Later alone it wore poems for clothes. Like a shirt I carried on my back the poetry I had read. So I lived for half a century until wordlessly we met. From my shirt on the back of the chair I learn tonight how many years of learning by heart I waited for you.
JOHN BERGER