This determines not only most relations between men and women but also the relation of women to themselves.
JOHN BERGERWhat do drawings mean to me? I really don’t know. The activity absorbs me. I forget everything else in a way that I don’t think happens with any other activity.
More John Berger Quotes
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Deep in the nature of theatre is a sense of ritual. The cinema, by contrast, transports its audience individually, singly, out of the theatre towards the unknown.
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Everything became exchangeable because everything became a commodity.
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Advertising is not merely an assembly of competing messages; it is a language itself which is always being used to make the same general proposal
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To be naked is to be oneself. To be nude is to be seen naked by others and yet not recognized for oneself. A naked body has to be seen as an object in order to become a nude.
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Photographs bear witness to a human choice being exercised in a given situation.
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Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity.
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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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Ever since the Greek tragedies, artists have, from time to time, asked themselves how they might influence ongoing political events.
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If every event which occurred could be given a name, there would be no need for stories.
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In the modern world, in which thousands of people are dying every hour as a consequence of politics, no writing anywhere can begin to be credible unless it is informed by political awareness and principles.
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Every authentic poem contributes to the labour of poetry… to bring together what life has separated or violence has torn apart.
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We who draw do so not only to make something observed visible to others, but also to accompany something invisible to its incalculable destination
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Compare the cinema with theatre. Both are dramatic arts. Theatre brings actors before a public and every night during the season they re-enact the same drama.
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Everything in life, is a question of drawing a life, John, and you have to decide for yourself where to draw it.
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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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