Japanese art looked closely around screens; Italian Renaissance art surveyed conquered nature through the window or door-frame of a palace.
JOHN BERGERNothing fortuitous happens in a child’s world. There are no accidents. Everything is connected with everything else and everything can be explained by everything else. . . . For a young child everything that happens is a necessity.
More John Berger Quotes
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Hope is a contraband passed from hand to hand and story to story.
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Writers who have neither product utopian trash.
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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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What is significant, and is so difficult for the urban stranger to understand, is that the two statements are connected by an and not by a but.
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You painted a naked woman because you enjoyed looking at her, put a mirror in her hand and you called the painting “Vanity,” thus morally condemning the woman whose nakedness you had depicted for you own pleasure.
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Those who first invented and then named the constellations were storytellers.
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Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.
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What any true painting touches is an absence – an absence of which without the painting, we might be unaware. And that would be our loss.
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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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To be desired is perhaps the closest anybody in this life can reach to feeling immortal.
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The essence of songs is neither vocal nor cerebral but organic.
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Nothing fortuitous happens in a child’s world. There are no accidents. Everything is connected with everything else and everything can be explained by everything else. . . . For a young child everything that happens is a necessity.
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The envied are like bureaucrats; the more impersonal they are, the greater the illusion (for themselves and for others) of their power.
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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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What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time.
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