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.
JOHN BERGERCapitalism survives by forcing the majority, whom it exploits, to define their own interests as narrowly as possible.
More John Berger Quotes
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She is meant to imagine herself transformed by the product into an object of envy for others, an envy which will then justify her loving herself.
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Painting is something that you need to do, if not every day, then certainly most days. It is almost like being a pianist: if you stop, you lose something.
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The heart of Paris is like nothing so much as the unending interior of a house.
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Compassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural.
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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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The century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to them, disappear over the horizon.
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Picasso drawings are like that… the Rembrandts are like that. The artist who most often did that was Van Gogh.
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In the average European oil painting of the nude the principal protagonist is never painted. He is the spectator in front of the picture and he is presumed to be a man.
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Art, when it functions like this, becomes a meeting-place of the invisible, the irreducible, the enduring, guts, and honor.
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A peasant becomes fond of his pig and is glad to salt away its pork.
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Everything in life, is a question of drawing a life, John, and you have to decide for yourself where to draw it.
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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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Hair is associated with sexual power. With passion.
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Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.
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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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