The publicity image steals her love of herself as she is, and offers it back to her for the price of the product.
JOHN BERGER
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.
More John Berger Quotes
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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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Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time has become Death triumphant over all.
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In the average European oil painting of the nude the principal protagonist is never painted. He is the spectator in front of the picture and he is presumed to be a man.
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Whenever the intensity of looking reaches a certain degree, one becomes aware of an equally intense energy coming towards one through the appearance of whatever it is one is scrutinizing.
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Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.
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Hair is associated with sexual power. With passion.
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The woman’s sexual passion needs to be minimized, so that the spectator may feel that he has the monopoly on such passion
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For the artist, drawing is discovery. And that is not just a slick phrase; it is quite literally true.
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Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.
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Art, when it functions like this, becomes a meeting-place of the invisible, the irreducible, the enduring, guts, and honor.
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That we find a crystal or a poppy beautiful means that we are less alone, that we are more deeply inserted into existence than the course of a single life would lead us to believe.
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Picasso drawings are like that… the Rembrandts are like that. The artist who most often did that was Van Gogh.
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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.
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It can happen that a book, unlike its authors, grows younger as the years pass.
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