Yet the first symbols were animals. What distinguished men from animals was born of their relationship with them.
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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She is meant to imagine herself transformed by the product into an object of envy for others, an envy which will then justify her loving herself.
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All weddings are similar, but every marriage is different.
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For the artist, drawing is discovery. And that is not just a slick phrase; it is quite literally true.
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Today the discredit of words is very great.
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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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What is to happen next will take place within the four walls of the story. And this is possible because the story’s voice makes everything its own.
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To be naked is to be oneself.
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The zoo cannot but disappoint.
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Words are so often used in the opposite sense, as a screen of diversion. It’s the struggle towards truthfulness which is the same whether one is writing a poem, a novel or an argument.
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Later alone it wore poems for clothes. Like a shirt I carried on my back the poetry I had read. So I lived for half a century until wordlessly we met. From my shirt on the back of the chair I learn tonight how many years of learning by heart I waited for you.
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For those who are behind the curtain, landmarks are no longer only geographic but also biographical and personal
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Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.
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The existence of pleasure is the first mystery. The existence of pain has prompted far more philosophical speculation.
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The heart of Paris is like nothing so much as the unending interior of a house.
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Unlike any other visual image, a photograph is not a rendering, an imitation or an interpretation of its subject, but actually a trace of it.
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