Nakedness reveals itself. Nudity is placed on display. The nude is condemned to never being naked. Nudity is a form of dress.
JOHN BERGERThe 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.
More John Berger Quotes
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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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It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open.
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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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Oil painting did to appearances what capital did to social relations. It reduced everything to the equality of objects.
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One of the fundamental reasons why so many doctors become cynical and disillusioned is precisely because, when the abstract idealism has worn thin, they are uncertain about the value of the actual lives of the patients they are treating.
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You can plan events, but if they go according to your plan they are not events.
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Fanaticism comes from any form of chosen blindness accompanying the pursuit of a single dogma.
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All photographs are there to remind us of what we forget. In this – as in other ways – they are the opposite of paintings.
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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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Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.
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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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The century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to them, disappear over the horizon.
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The essence of songs is neither vocal nor cerebral but organic.
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Never again shall a single story be told as though it were the only one.
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Everything became exchangeable because everything became a commodity.
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