When we suffer anguish we return to early childhood because that is the period in which we first learnt to suffer the experience of total loss.
JOHN BERGEREthics determine choices and actions and suggest difficult priorities.
More John Berger Quotes
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To remain innocent may also be. to remain ignorant.
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To be naked is to be oneself. To be nude is to be seen naked by others and yet not recognized for oneself. A naked body has to be seen as an object in order to become a nude.
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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.
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Propaganda requires a permanent network of communication so that it can systematically stifle reflection with emotive or utopian slogans. Its pace is usually fast.
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Tracing an imaginary line between a cluster of stars gave them an image and an identity.
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Hair is associated with sexual power. With passion.
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Picasso drawings are like that… the Rembrandts are like that. The artist who most often did that was Van Gogh.
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Japanese art looked closely around screens; Italian Renaissance art surveyed conquered nature through the window or door-frame of a palace.
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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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Writers who have neither product utopian trash.
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She is meant to imagine herself transformed by the product into an object of envy for others, an envy which will then justify her loving herself.
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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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A drawing is essentially a private work, related only to the artist’s own needs; a ‘finished’ statue or canvas is essentially a public, presented work – related far more directly to the demands of communication.
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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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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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