This determines not only most relations between men and women but also the relation of women to themselves.
JOHN BERGER
That we find a crystal or a poppy beautiful means that we are less alone, that we are more deeply inserted into existence than the course of a single life would lead us to believe.
More John Berger Quotes
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This determines not only most relations between men and women but also the relation of women to themselves.
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Today the discredit of words is very great.
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Fanaticism comes from any form of chosen blindness accompanying the pursuit of a single dogma.
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Those who first invented and then named the constellations were storytellers.
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What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time.
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Pleasure and pain need to be considered together; they are inseparable. Yet the space filled by each is perhaps different. Pleasure, defined as a sense of gratification, is essential for nature
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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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Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.
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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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Never chain your dogs together with sausages. One must accustom one’s self to be bored.
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The strange power of art is sometimes it can show that what people have in common is more urgent than what differentiates them. It seems to me it’s something that theatre can do, but it’s rare; it’s very rare.
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The zoo cannot but disappoint. The public purpose of zoos is to offer visitors the opportunity of looking at animals.
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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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Hair is associated with sexual power. With passion.
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The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.
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