For those who are behind the curtain, landmarks are no longer only geographic but also biographical and personal
JOHN BERGERWriters who have neither product utopian trash.
More John Berger Quotes
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What is significant, and is so difficult for the urban stranger to understand, is that the two statements are connected by an and not by a but.
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The century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to them, disappear over the horizon.
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There’s the artist’s intimacy and truthfulness to himself, but an equal intimacy to the Other [the one drawn].
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The animal has secrets which, unlike the secrets of caves, mountains, seas are specifically addressed to man.
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Japanese art looked closely around screens; Italian Renaissance art surveyed conquered nature through the window or door-frame of a palace.
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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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Fanaticism comes from any form of chosen blindness accompanying the pursuit of a single dogma.
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Buildings become furniture, courtyards become carpets and arrases, the streets are like galleries, the boulevards conservatories. It is a house, one or two centuries old, rich, bourgeois, distinguished. The only way of going out, or shutting the door behind you, is to leave the centre.
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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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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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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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We follow songs in order to be enclosed. We find ourselves inside a message.
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This determines not only most relations between men and women but also the relation of women to themselves.
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Nothing in the nature around us is evil. This needs to be repeated since one of the human ways of talking oneself into inhuman acts is to cite the supposed cruelty of nature.
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[O]ften art has judged the judges, pleaded revenge to the innocent and shown to the future what the past suffered, so that it has never been forgotten.
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