Fanaticism comes from any form of chosen blindness accompanying the pursuit of a single dogma.
JOHN BERGERYou cant draw it for others. You can try, of course, but it doesn’t work. People obeying rules laid down my somebody else is not the same thing as respecting life. And if you want to respect life, you have to draw a line.
More John Berger Quotes
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Photography, because it stops the flow of life, is always flirting with death.
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Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time has become Death triumphant over all.
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To be naked is to be oneself. To be nude is to be seen naked by others and yet not recognized for oneself. A naked body has to be seen as an object in order to become a nude.
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For the artist, drawing is discovery. And that is not just a slick phrase; it is quite literally true.
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Protest and anger practically always derives from hope, and the shouting out against injustice is always in the hope of those injustices being somewhat corrected and a little more justice established.
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It is seeing which establishes our place in the surrounding world; we explain that world with words, but words can never undo the fact that we are surrounded by it
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We never look at just one thing; we are always looking at the relation between things and ourselves.
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Common-sense is part of the home-made ideology of those who have been deprived of fundamental learning, of those who have been kept ignorant.
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It can happen that a book, unlike its authors, grows younger as the years pass.
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Hope is a contraband passed from hand to hand and story to story.
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Ethics determine choices and actions and suggest difficult priorities.
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Matisse did neither. He clashed his colours together like cymbals and the effect was like a lullaby.
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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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Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.
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When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls.
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