Fanaticism comes from any form of chosen blindness accompanying the pursuit of a single dogma.
JOHN BERGERMen look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.
More John Berger Quotes
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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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The past is the one thing we are not prisoners of. We can do with the past exactly what we wish. What we can’t do is to change its consequences.
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Photographs bear witness to a human choice being exercised in a given situation.
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Photography, because it stops the flow of life, is always flirting with death.
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For me, drawing is a lot to do with taking out, with returning to the white of the paper.
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It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open.
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Unlike any other visual image, a photograph is not a rendering, an imitation or an interpretation of its subject, but actually a trace of it.
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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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Ever since the Greek tragedies, artists have, from time to time, asked themselves how they might influence ongoing political events.
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Protest and anger practically always derives from hope, and the shouting out against injustice is always in the hope of those injustices being somewhat corrected and a little more justice established.
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When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls.
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The unsung, impersonal world remains outside, on the other surface of a placenta. All songs, even when their content or rendering is strongly masculine, operate maternally.
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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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No painting or drawing, however naturalist, belongs to its subject in the way that a photograph does.
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A cigarette is a breathing space. It makes a parenthesis.
JOHN BERGER