Ever since the Greek tragedies, artists have, from time to time, asked themselves how they might influence ongoing political events.
JOHN BERGERMy heart born naked was swaddled in lullabies.
More John Berger Quotes
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Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion.
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A man’s presence suggests what he is capable of doing to you or for you.
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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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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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The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.
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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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Photography, because it stops the flow of life, is always flirting with death.
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The essence of songs is neither vocal nor cerebral but organic.
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The time of a cigarette is a parenthesis, and if it is shared, you are both in that parenthesis. Its like a proscenium arch for a dialogue.
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The existence of pleasure is the first mystery. The existence of pain has prompted far more philosophical speculation.
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Ours is the century of enforced travel of disappearances.
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We know that the earth is turning away from it. Yet the knowledge, the explanation, never quite fits the sight.
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It was more than that. It was the period in which we suffered more total losses than in all the rest of our life put together.
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Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.
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A photograph is a result of the photographer’s decision that it is worth recording that this particular event or this particular object has been seen. If everything that existed were continually being photographed, every photograph would become meaningless.
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