All publicity works upon anxiety.
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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One can say of language that it is potentially the only human home, the only dwelling place that cannot be hostile to man.
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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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It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open.
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Capitalism survives by forcing the majority, whom it exploits, to define their own interests as narrowly as possible.
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Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.
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I wanted to write about looking at the world, so it’s more about helping people, or persuading people, to see what is around us; both the marvellous and the terrible.
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There’s the artist’s intimacy and truthfulness to himself, but an equal intimacy to the Other [the one drawn].
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For the Cro-Magnons, space is a metaphysical arena of continually intermittent appearances and disappearances.
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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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Tracing an imaginary line between a cluster of stars gave them an image and an identity.
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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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When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls.
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The stars threaded on that line were like events threaded on a narrative. Imagining the constellations did not of course change the stars, nor did it change the black emptiness that surrounds them. What it changed was the way people read the night sky.
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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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Writers who have neither product utopian trash.
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