Hair is associated with sexual power. With passion.
JOHN BERGERYet the first symbols were animals. What distinguished men from animals was born of their relationship with them.
More John Berger Quotes
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Publicity is the life of this culture – in so far as without publicity capitalism could not survive – and at the same time publicity is its dream.
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Do you know the legend about cicadas? They say they are the souls of poets who cannot keep quiet because, when they were alive, they never wrote the poems they wanted to.
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Without ethics man has no future. This is to say mankind without them cannot be itself.
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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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Poetry can repair no loss, but it defies the space which separates. And it does this by its continual labor of reassembling what has been scattered.
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To be naked is to be oneself. To be nude is to be seen naked by others and yet not recognised for oneself.
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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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The contradiction in perspective was that it structured all images of reality to address a single spectator who, unlike God, could only be in one place at a time.
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Ours is the century of enforced travel of disappearances.
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A man’s presence suggests what he is capable of doing to you or for you.
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All photographs are there to remind us of what we forget. In this – as in other ways – they are the opposite of paintings.
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The heart of Paris is like nothing so much as the unending interior of a house.
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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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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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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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