Every authentic poem contributes to the labour of poetry… to bring together what life has separated or violence has torn apart.
JOHN BERGERMen look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.
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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Compassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural.
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All publicity works upon anxiety.
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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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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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Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion.
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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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Every painted image of something is also about the absence of the real thing. All painting is about the presence of absence.
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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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Writers who have neither product utopian trash.
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When 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.
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A peasant becomes fond of his pig and is glad to salt away its pork.
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The stars threaded on that line were like events threaded on a narrative. Imagining the constellations did not of course change the stars, nor did it change the black emptiness that surrounds them. What it changed was the way people read the night sky.
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Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.
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Post-modernism has cut off the present from all futures. The daily media add to this by cutting off the past. Which means that critical opinion is often orphaned in the present.
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