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.
JOHN BERGERHope is a contraband passed from hand to hand and story to story.
More John Berger Quotes
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Hair is associated with sexual power. With passion.
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We know that the earth is turning away from it. Yet the knowledge, the explanation, never quite fits the sight.
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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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The publicity image steals her love of herself as she is, and offers it back to her for the price of the product.
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The essence of songs is neither vocal nor cerebral but organic.
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These contradictions both hide and increase the natural ambiguity of the photographic image.
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To 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.
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You painted a naked woman because you enjoyed looking at her, put a mirror in her hand and you called the painting “Vanity,” thus morally condemning the woman whose nakedness you had depicted for you own pleasure.
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Capitalism survives by forcing the majority, whom it exploits, to define their own interests as narrowly as possible.
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Tracing an imaginary line between a cluster of stars gave them an image and an identity.
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Photography, because it stops the flow of life, is always flirting with death.
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For the Cro-Magnons, space is a metaphysical arena of continually intermittent appearances and disappearances.
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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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Photographs bear witness to a human choice being exercised in a given situation.
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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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