Every authentic poem contributes to the labor of poetry… to bring together what life has separated or violence has torn apart…
JOHN BERGERYet nowherein a zoo can a stranger encounter the look of an animal. At the most, the animal’s gaze flickers and passes on. They look sideways. They look blindly beyond.
More John Berger Quotes
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The century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to them, disappear over the horizon.
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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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Every city has a sex and an age which have nothing to do with demography. Rome is feminine. So is Odessa. London is a teenager, an urchin, and, in this, hasn’t changed since the time of Dickens. Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.
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The heart of Paris is like nothing so much as the unending interior of a house.
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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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Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak.
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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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To be naked is to be oneself.
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Without ethics man has no future. This is to say mankind without them cannot be itself.
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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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Whenever the intensity of looking reaches a certain degree, one becomes aware of an equally intense energy coming towards one through the appearance of whatever it is one is scrutinizing.
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Nakedness reveals itself. Nudity is placed on display. The nude is condemned to never being naked. Nudity is a form of dress.
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Paintings record what the painter remembers. Because each one of us forgets different things, a photo more than a painting may change its meaning according to who is looking at it.
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All weddings are similar, but every marriage is different.
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The power of the glamorous resides in their supposed happiness: the power of the bureaucrat in his supposed authority.
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