Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.
JOHN BERGERTo live and die amongst foreigners may seem less absurd than to live persecuted or tortured by one’s fellow countrymen….
More John Berger Quotes
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The stars threaded on that line were like events threaded on a narrative. Imagining the constellations did not of course change the stars, nor did it change the black emptiness that surrounds them. What it changed was the way people read the night sky.
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Protest and anger practically always derives from hope, and the shouting out against injustice is always in the hope of those injustices being somewhat corrected and a little more justice established.
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Compassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural.
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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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What any true painting touches is an absence – an absence of which without the painting, we might be unaware. And that would be our loss.
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It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open.
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The zoo cannot but disappoint. The public purpose of zoos is to offer visitors the opportunity of looking at animals.
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What is saved in the cinema when it achieves art is a spontaneous continuity with all mankind.
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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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No painting or drawing, however naturalist, belongs to its subject in the way that a photograph does.
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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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Pleasure and pain need to be considered together; they are inseparable. Yet the space filled by each is perhaps different. Pleasure, defined as a sense of gratification, is essential for nature
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As Nelson Mandela has pointed out, boycott is not a principle, it is a tactic depending upon circumstances.
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The century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to them, disappear over the horizon.
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The camera relieves us of the burden of memory.
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