Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.
JOHN BERGEREver since the Greek tragedies, artists have, from time to time, asked themselves how they might influence ongoing political events.
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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All weddings are similar, but every marriage is different.
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The happiness of being envied is glamour. Being envied is a solitary form of reassurance. It depends precisely upon not sharing your experience with those who envy you.
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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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All publicity works upon anxiety.
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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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Yet the first symbols were animals. What distinguished men from animals was born of their relationship with them.
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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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If everything that existed were continually being photographed, every photograph would become meaningless.
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What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time.
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For those who are behind the curtain, landmarks are no longer only geographic but also biographical and personal
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By contrast, a woman’s presence… defines what can and cannot be done to her.
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A peasant becomes fond of his pig and is glad to salt away its pork.
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Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.
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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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