The human imagination… has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist practice or philosophy.
JOHN BERGERGlamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion.
More John Berger Quotes
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No painting or drawing, however naturalist, belongs to its subject in the way that a photograph does.
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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.
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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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In the modern world, in which thousands of people are dying every hour as a consequence of politics, no writing anywhere can begin to be credible unless it is informed by political awareness and principles.
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Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.
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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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Ethics determine choices and actions and suggest difficult priorities.
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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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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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To live and die amongst foreigners may seem less absurd than to live persecuted or tortured by one’s fellow countrymen….
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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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If every event which occurred could be given a name, there would be no need for stories.
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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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A peasant becomes fond of his pig and is glad to salt away its pork.
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Compare the cinema with theatre. Both are dramatic arts. Theatre brings actors before a public and every night during the season they re-enact the same drama.
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