The woman’s sexual passion needs to be minimized, so that the spectator may feel that he has the monopoly on such passion
JOHN BERGERParis, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.
More John Berger Quotes
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Never chain your dogs together with sausages. One must accustom one’s self to be bored.
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As Nelson Mandela has pointed out, boycott is not a principle, it is a tactic depending upon circumstances.
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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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The true content of a photograph is invisible, for it derives from a play, not with form, but with time.
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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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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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All weddings are similar, but every marriage is different.
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Compare the cinema with theatre. Both are dramatic arts. Theatre brings actors before a public and every night during the season they re-enact the same drama.
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Hope is a contraband passed from hand to hand and story to story.
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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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History always constitutes the relation between a present and its past. Consequently fear of the present leads to mystification of the past
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Landscapes can be deceptive. Sometimes a landscape seems to be less a setting for the life of its inhabitants than a curtain behind which their struggles, achievements and accidents takes place.
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Nothing fortuitous happens in a child’s world. There are no accidents. Everything is connected with everything else and everything can be explained by everything else. . . . For a young child everything that happens is a necessity.
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[O]ften art has judged the judges, pleaded revenge to the innocent and shown to the future what the past suffered, so that it has never been forgotten.
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The existence of pleasure is the first mystery. The existence of pain has prompted far more philosophical speculation.
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