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.
JOHN BERGERCommon-sense is part of the home-made ideology of those who have been deprived of fundamental learning, of those who have been kept ignorant.
More John Berger Quotes
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A cigarette is a breathing space. It makes a parenthesis.
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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 envied are like bureaucrats; the more impersonal they are, the greater the illusion (for themselves and for others) of their power.
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You painted a naked woman because you enjoyed looking at her, put a mirror in her hand and you called the painting “Vanity,” thus morally condemning the woman whose nakedness you had depicted for you own pleasure.
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To remain innocent may also be. to remain ignorant.
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Every authentic poem contributes to the labor of poetry… to bring together what life has separated or violence has torn apart…
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My heart born naked was swaddled in lullabies.
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At times failure is very necessary for the artist. It reminds him that failure is not the ultimate disaster. And this reminder liberates him from the mean fussing of perfectionism.
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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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These contradictions both hide and increase the natural ambiguity of the photographic image.
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When we suffer anguish we return to early childhood because that is the period in which we first learnt to suffer the experience of total loss.
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Nothing fortuitous happens in a child’s world. There are no accidents. Everything is connected with everything else and everything can be explained by everything else. . . . For a young child everything that happens is a necessity.
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All weddings are similar, but every marriage is different.
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To be naked is to be oneself.
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By contrast, a woman’s presence… defines what can and cannot be done to her.
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