Traditional Chinese art looked at the Earth from a Confucian mountain top;
JOHN BERGERBy contrast, a woman’s presence… defines what can and cannot be done to her.
More John Berger Quotes
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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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Hair is associated with sexual power. With passion.
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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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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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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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The zoo cannot but disappoint.
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It is comparatively easy to achieve a certain unity in a picture by allowing one colour to dominate, or by muting all the colours.
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The existence of pleasure is the first mystery. The existence of pain has prompted far more philosophical speculation.
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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 time of a cigarette is a parenthesis, and if it is shared, you are both in that parenthesis. Its like a proscenium arch for a dialogue.
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The human imagination… has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist practice or philosophy.
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Your lips, beloved, are like a honeycomb: honey and milk are under the tongue. And the smell of your clothes is like the smell of my home.
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A tactic which allows people, as distinct from their elected but often craven governments, to apply a certain pressure on those wielding power in what they, the boycotters, consider to be an unjust or immoral way.
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Tracing an imaginary line between a cluster of stars gave them an image and an identity.
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For the Cro-Magnons, space is a metaphysical arena of continually intermittent appearances and disappearances.
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