We never look at just one thing; we are always looking at the relation between things and ourselves.
JOHN BERGEREthics determine choices and actions and suggest difficult priorities.
More John Berger Quotes
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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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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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For those who are behind the curtain, landmarks are no longer only geographic but also biographical and personal
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But toemigrate is always to dismantle the centre of the world, and so to move into a lost, disoriented one of fragments.
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What distinguished man from animals was the human capacity for symbolic thought, the capacity which was inseparable from the development of language in which words were not mere signals, but signifiers of something other than themselves.
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At times failure is very necessary for the artist. It reminds him that failure is not the ultimate disaster. And this reminder liberates him from the mean fussing of perfectionism.
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It is not usually possible in a poem or a story to make the relationship between particular and universal fully explicit. Those who try to do so end up writing parables.
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If the public photograph contributes to a memory, it is to the memory of an unknowable and total stranger.
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By contrast, a woman’s presence… defines what can and cannot be done to her.
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My heart born naked was swaddled in lullabies.
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That we find a crystal or a poppy beautiful means that we are less alone, that we are more deeply inserted into existence than the course of a single life would lead us to believe.
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You cant draw it for others. You can try, of course, but it doesn’t work. People obeying rules laid down my somebody else is not the same thing as respecting life. And if you want to respect life, you have to draw a line.
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Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.
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The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.
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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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