The woman’s sexual passion needs to be minimized, so that the spectator may feel that he has the monopoly on such passion
JOHN BERGERSeeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak.
More John Berger Quotes
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Fanaticism comes from any form of chosen blindness accompanying the pursuit of a single dogma.
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Hope is a contraband passed from hand to hand and story to story.
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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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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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For me, drawing is a lot to do with taking out, with returning to the white of the paper.
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The camera relieves us of the burden of memory. It surveys us like God, and it surveys for us. Yet no other god has been so cynical, for the camera records in order to forget.
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Drawing is a way of coming upon the connection between things, just like metaphor in poetry reconnects what has become separated.
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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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You can plan events, but if they go according to your plan they are not events.
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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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Matisse did neither. He clashed his colours together like cymbals and the effect was like a lullaby.
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I wanted to write about looking at the world, so it’s more about helping people, or persuading people, to see what is around us; both the marvellous and the terrible.
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The surveyor of woman in herself is male: the surveyed female. Thus she turns herself into an object – and most particularly an object of vision: a sight.
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It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open.
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Nakedness reveals itself. Nudity is placed on display. The nude is condemned to never being naked. Nudity is a form of dress.
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