This is not because they are callous or personally inhuman: it is because they live in and accept a society which is incapable of knowing what a human life is worth.
JOHN BERGERMatisse did neither. He clashed his colours together like cymbals and the effect was like a lullaby.
More John Berger Quotes
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History always constitutes the relation between a present and its past. Consequently fear of the present leads to mystification of the past
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If everything that existed were continually being photographed, every photograph would become meaningless.
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The true content of a photograph is invisible, for it derives from a play, not with form, but with time.
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The human imagination… has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist practice or philosophy.
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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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All creation is in the art of seeing.
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What is saved in the cinema when it achieves art is a spontaneous continuity with all mankind.
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It is comparatively easy to achieve a certain unity in a picture by allowing one colour to dominate, or by muting all the colours.
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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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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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Every authentic poem contributes to the labour of poetry… to bring together what life has separated or violence has torn apart.
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The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich.
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The surveyor of woman in herself is male: the surveyed female. Thus she turns herself into an object – and most particularly an object of vision: a sight.
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Buildings become furniture, courtyards become carpets and arrases, the streets are like galleries, the boulevards conservatories. It is a house, one or two centuries old, rich, bourgeois, distinguished. The only way of going out, or shutting the door behind you, is to leave the centre.
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For the Cro-Magnons, space is a metaphysical arena of continually intermittent appearances and disappearances.
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