Never chain your dogs together with sausages. One must accustom one’s self to be bored.
JOHN BERGERAutobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.
More John Berger Quotes
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Yet nowherein a zoo can a stranger encounter the look of an animal. At the most, the animal’s gaze flickers and passes on. They look sideways. They look blindly beyond.
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A cigarette is a breathing space. It makes a parenthesis.
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In the modern world, in which thousands of people are dying every hour as a consequence of politics, no writing anywhere can begin to be credible unless it is informed by political awareness and principles.
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To be naked is to be oneself.
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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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Writers who have neither product utopian trash.
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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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As Nelson Mandela has pointed out, boycott is not a principle, it is a tactic depending upon circumstances.
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It is seeing which establishes our place in the surrounding world; we explain that world with words, but words can never undo the fact that we are surrounded by it
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To be desired is perhaps the closest anybody in this life can reach to feeling immortal.
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The impulse to paint comes neither from observation nor from the soul (which is probably blind) but from an encounter: the encounter between painter and model: even if the model is a mountain or a shelf of empty medicine bottles.
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All weddings are similar, but every marriage is different.
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Every authentic poem contributes to the labor of poetry… to bring together what life has separated or violence has torn apart…
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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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Traditional Chinese art looked at the Earth from a Confucian mountain top;
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