The power of the glamorous resides in their supposed happiness: the power of the bureaucrat in his supposed authority.
JOHN BERGEREthics determine choices and actions and suggest difficult priorities.
More John Berger Quotes
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Poetry can repair no loss, but it defies the space which separates. And it does this by its continual labor of reassembling what has been scattered.
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Photography, because it stops the flow of life, is always flirting with death.
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Hair is associated with sexual power. With passion.
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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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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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It is comparatively easy to achieve a certain unity in a picture by allowing one colour to dominate, or by muting all the colours.
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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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No painting or drawing, however naturalist, belongs to its subject in the way that a photograph does.
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Oil painting did to appearances what capital did to social relations. It reduced everything to the equality of objects.
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The essence of songs is neither vocal nor cerebral but organic.
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All creation is in the art of seeing.
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The zoo cannot but disappoint.
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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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Photographs bear witness to a human choice being exercised in a given situation.
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To be desired is perhaps the closest anybody in this life can reach to feeling immortal.
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