What do drawings mean to me? I really don’t know. The activity absorbs me. I forget everything else in a way that I don’t think happens with any other activity.
JOHN BERGERCompassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural.
More John Berger Quotes
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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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It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open.
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Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.
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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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All publicity works upon anxiety.
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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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The zoo cannot but disappoint. The public purpose of zoos is to offer visitors the opportunity of looking at animals.
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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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Capitalism survives by forcing the majority, whom it exploits, to define their own interests as narrowly as possible.
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Propaganda requires a permanent network of communication so that it can systematically stifle reflection with emotive or utopian slogans. Its pace is usually fast.
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Nothing fortuitous happens in a child’s world. There are no accidents. Everything is connected with everything else and everything can be explained by everything else. . . . For a young child everything that happens is a necessity.
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The impulse to paint comes neither from observation nor from the soul (which is probably blind) but from an encounter: the encounter between painter and model: even if the model is a mountain or a shelf of empty medicine bottles.
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Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.
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By contrast, a woman’s presence… defines what can and cannot be done to her.
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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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