Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.
JOHN BERGERMen look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.
More John Berger Quotes
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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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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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Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time has become Death triumphant over all.
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There’s the artist’s intimacy and truthfulness to himself, but an equal intimacy to the Other [the one drawn].
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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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The spectator-buyer is meant to envy herself as she will become if she buys the product.
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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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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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But toemigrate is always to dismantle the centre of the world, and so to move into a lost, disoriented one of fragments.
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A cigarette is a breathing space. It makes a parenthesis.
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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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Fanaticism comes from any form of chosen blindness accompanying the pursuit of a single dogma.
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The past is the one thing we are not prisoners of. We can do with the past exactly what we wish. What we can’t do is to change its consequences.
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The contradiction in perspective was that it structured all images of reality to address a single spectator who, unlike God, could only be in one place at a time.
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For the Cro-Magnons, space is a metaphysical arena of continually intermittent appearances and disappearances.
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