Compassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural.
JOHN BERGERToday the discredit of words is very great.
More John Berger Quotes
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A tactic which allows people, as distinct from their elected but often craven governments, to apply a certain pressure on those wielding power in what they, the boycotters, consider to be an unjust or immoral way.
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All weddings are similar, but every marriage is different.
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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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We only see what we look at. To look is an act of choice.
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A peasant becomes fond of his pig and is glad to salt away its pork.
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It is comparatively easy to achieve a certain unity in a picture by allowing one colour to dominate, or by muting all the colours.
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It can happen that a book, unlike its authors, grows younger as the years pass.
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Ours is the century of enforced travel of disappearances.
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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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All creation is in the art of seeing.
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Hair is associated with sexual power. With passion.
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Whenever he looked he saw the labour of existence; and this labour, recognised as such, was what constituted reality for him. (On Vincent Van Gogh)
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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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Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time has become Death triumphant over all.
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I use charcoal a lot. Partly because it has such a fantastic range but also because it is very easy to erase.
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