Fanaticism comes from any form of chosen blindness accompanying the pursuit of a single dogma.
JOHN BERGEREverything in life, is a question of drawing a life, John, and you have to decide for yourself where to draw it.
More John Berger Quotes
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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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The time of a cigarette is a parenthesis, and if it is shared, you are both in that parenthesis. Its like a proscenium arch for a dialogue.
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Traditional Chinese art looked at the Earth from a Confucian mountain top;
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Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion.
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The contradiction in perspective was that it structured all images of reality to address a single spectator who, unlike God, could only be in one place at a time.
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Common-sense is part of the home-made ideology of those who have been deprived of fundamental learning, of those who have been kept ignorant.
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A photograph is a result of the photographer’s decision that it is worth recording that this particular event or this particular object has been seen. If everything that existed were continually being photographed, every photograph would become meaningless.
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To be naked is to be oneself.
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We know that the earth is turning away from it. Yet the knowledge, the explanation, never quite fits the sight.
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Today the discredit of words is very great.
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I use charcoal a lot. Partly because it has such a fantastic range but also because it is very easy to erase.
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Compassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural.
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The extreme proposition on which Giacometti based all his mature work was that no reality… could ever be shared. This is why he believed it impossible for a work to be finished. This is why the content of any work is not the nature of the figure or head portrayed but the incomplete history of him staring at it.
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The zoo cannot but disappoint. The public purpose of zoos is to offer visitors the opportunity of looking at animals.
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It was more than that. It was the period in which we suffered more total losses than in all the rest of our life put together.
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