The essence of songs is neither vocal nor cerebral but organic.
JOHN BERGERFanaticism comes from any form of chosen blindness accompanying the pursuit of a single dogma.
More John Berger Quotes
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Without ethics man has no future. This is to say mankind without them cannot be itself.
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Everything became exchangeable because everything became a commodity.
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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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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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Advertising is not merely an assembly of competing messages; it is a language itself which is always being used to make the same general proposal
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When he painted a road, the roadmakers were there in his imagination, when he painted the turned earth of a ploughed field, the gesture of the blade turning the earth was included in his own act.
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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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The unsung, impersonal world remains outside, on the other surface of a placenta. All songs, even when their content or rendering is strongly masculine, operate maternally.
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Traditional Chinese art looked at the Earth from a Confucian mountain top;
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The happiness of being envied is glamour. Being envied is a solitary form of reassurance. It depends precisely upon not sharing your experience with those who envy you.
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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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This determines not only most relations between men and women but also the relation of women to themselves.
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Nakedness reveals itself. Nudity is placed on display. The nude is condemned to never being naked. Nudity is a form of dress.
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The woman’s sexual passion needs to be minimized, so that the spectator may feel that he has the monopoly on such passion
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What is to happen next will take place within the four walls of the story. And this is possible because the story’s voice makes everything its own.
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