Common-sense is part of the home-made ideology of those who have been deprived of fundamental learning, of those who have been kept ignorant.
JOHN BERGERAll publicity works upon anxiety.
More John Berger Quotes
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We follow songs in order to be enclosed. We find ourselves inside a message.
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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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The woman’s sexual passion needs to be minimized, so that the spectator may feel that he has the monopoly on such passion
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Every authentic poem contributes to the labor of poetry… to bring together what life has separated or violence has torn apart…
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To live and die amongst foreigners may seem less absurd than to live persecuted or tortured by one’s fellow countrymen….
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Tracing an imaginary line between a cluster of stars gave them an image and an identity.
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Never again shall a single story be told as though it were the only one.
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The spectator-buyer is meant to envy herself as she will become if she buys the product.
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The heart of Paris is like nothing so much as the unending interior of a house.
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Ours is the century of enforced travel of disappearances.
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A cigarette is a breathing space. It makes a parenthesis.
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(The sight of it as an object stimulates the use of it as an object.) Nakedness reveals itself. Nudity is placed on display. To be naked is to be without disguises.
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You painted a naked woman because you enjoyed looking at her, put a mirror in her hand and you called the painting “Vanity,” thus morally condemning the woman whose nakedness you had depicted for you own pleasure.
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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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All weddings are similar, but every marriage is different.
JOHN BERGER






