We follow songs in order to be enclosed. We find ourselves inside a message.
JOHN BERGERTo 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.
More John Berger Quotes
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Post-modernism has cut off the present from all futures. The daily media add to this by cutting off the past. Which means that critical opinion is often orphaned in the present.
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Everything became exchangeable because everything became a commodity.
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All weddings are similar, but every marriage is different.
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You can plan events, but if they go according to your plan they are not events.
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When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls.
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To live and die amongst foreigners may seem less absurd than to live persecuted or tortured by one’s fellow countrymen….
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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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Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.
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Hope is a contraband passed from hand to hand and story to story.
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This determines not only most relations between men and women but also the relation of women to themselves.
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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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Common-sense is part of the home-made ideology of those who have been deprived of fundamental learning, of those who have been kept ignorant.
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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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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 century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to them, disappear over the horizon.
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