The heart of Paris is like nothing so much as the unending interior of a house.
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 true content of a photograph is invisible, for it derives from a play, not with form, but with time.
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By contrast, a woman’s presence… defines what can and cannot be done to her.
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A cigarette is a breathing space. It makes a parenthesis.
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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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The camera relieves us of the burden of memory.
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Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.
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All weddings are similar, but every marriage is different.
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We can become anything. That is why injustice is impossible here. There may be the accident of birth, there is no accident of death. Nothing forces us to remain what we were.
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Yet the first symbols were animals. What distinguished men from animals was born of their relationship with them.
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For the Cro-Magnons, space is a metaphysical arena of continually intermittent appearances and disappearances.
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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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In the average European oil painting of the nude the principal protagonist is never painted. He is the spectator in front of the picture and he is presumed to be a man.
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The strange power of art is sometimes it can show that what people have in common is more urgent than what differentiates them. It seems to me it’s something that theatre can do, but it’s rare; it’s very rare.
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The unsung, impersonal world remains outside, on the other surface of a placenta. All songs, even when their content or rendering is strongly masculine, operate maternally.
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It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open.
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