It is not an art of the princes or the bourgeoisie. It is popular and vagrant. In the sky of the cinema people learn what they might have been and discover what belongs to them apart from their single lives.
JOHN BERGERGlamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion.
More John Berger Quotes
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All weddings are similar, but every marriage is different.
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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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We who draw do so not only to make something observed visible to others, but also to accompany something invisible to its incalculable destination
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Ever since the Greek tragedies, artists have, from time to time, asked themselves how they might influence ongoing political events.
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Yet nowherein a zoo can a stranger encounter the look of an animal. At the most, the animal’s gaze flickers and passes on. They look sideways. They look blindly beyond.
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A photograph is a meeting place where the interests of the photographer, the photographed, the viewer and those who are using the photograph are often contradictory.
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For those who are behind the curtain, landmarks are no longer only geographic but also biographical and personal
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It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open.
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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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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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We know that the earth is turning away from it. Yet the knowledge, the explanation, never quite fits the sight.
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It is not usually possible in a poem or a story to make the relationship between particular and universal fully explicit. Those who try to do so end up writing parables.
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Later alone it wore poems for clothes. Like a shirt I carried on my back the poetry I had read. So I lived for half a century until wordlessly we met. From my shirt on the back of the chair I learn tonight how many years of learning by heart I waited for you.
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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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(The sight of it as an object stimulates the use of it as an object.) Nakedness reveals itself. Nudity is placed on display. To be naked is to be without disguises.
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