The unsung, impersonal world remains outside, on the other surface of a placenta. All songs, even when their content or rendering is strongly masculine, operate maternally.
JOHN BERGEREthics determine choices and actions and suggest difficult priorities.
More John Berger Quotes
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[O]ften art has judged the judges, pleaded revenge to the innocent and shown to the future what the past suffered, so that it has never been forgotten.
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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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Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.
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Hair is associated with sexual power. With passion.
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We never look at just one thing; we are always looking at the relation between things and ourselves.
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The zoo cannot but disappoint.
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What is saved in the cinema when it achieves art is a spontaneous continuity with all mankind.
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The envied are like bureaucrats; the more impersonal they are, the greater the illusion (for themselves and for others) of their power.
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Painting is something that you need to do, if not every day, then certainly most days. It is almost like being a pianist: if you stop, you lose something.
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Ours is the century of enforced travel of disappearances.
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Never chain your dogs together with sausages. One must accustom one’s self to be bored.
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Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity.
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When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls.
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All weddings are similar, but every marriage is different.
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Fanaticism comes from any form of chosen blindness accompanying the pursuit of a single dogma.
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