Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak.
JOHN BERGERWhen he painted a road, the roadmakers were there in his imagination, when he painted the turned earth of a ploughed field, the gesture of the blade turning the earth was included in his own act.
More John Berger Quotes
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The century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to them, disappear over the horizon.
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For those who are behind the curtain, landmarks are no longer only geographic but also biographical and personal
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It is not usually possible in a poem or a story to make the relationship between particular and universal fully explicit. Those who try to do so end up writing parables.
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By contrast, a woman’s presence… defines what can and cannot be done to her.
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Everything became exchangeable because everything became a commodity.
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Deep in the nature of theatre is a sense of ritual. The cinema, by contrast, transports its audience individually, singly, out of the theatre towards the unknown.
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Your lips, beloved, are like a honeycomb: honey and milk are under the tongue. And the smell of your clothes is like the smell of my home.
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Never again shall a single story be told as though it were the only one.
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Buildings become furniture, courtyards become carpets and arrases, the streets are like galleries, the boulevards conservatories. It is a house, one or two centuries old, rich, bourgeois, distinguished. The only way of going out, or shutting the door behind you, is to leave the centre.
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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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Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity.
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Never chain your dogs together with sausages. One must accustom one’s self to be bored.
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Capitalism survives by forcing the majority, whom it exploits, to define their own interests as narrowly as possible.
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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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It is not an art of the princes or the bourgeoisie. It is popular and vagrant. In the sky of the cinema people learn what they might have been and discover what belongs to them apart from their single lives.
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