Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.
JOHN BERGERWhat is significant, and is so difficult for the urban stranger to understand, is that the two statements are connected by an and not by a but.
More John Berger Quotes
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Emigration, forced or chosen, across national frontiers or from village to metropolis, is the quintessential experience of our time.
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It can happen that a book, unlike its authors, grows younger as the years pass.
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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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Fanaticism comes from any form of chosen blindness accompanying the pursuit of a single dogma.
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It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open.
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Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.
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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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For the artist, drawing is discovery. And that is not just a slick phrase; it is quite literally true.
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Publicity is the life of this culture – in so far as without publicity capitalism could not survive – and at the same time publicity is its dream.
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You cant draw it for others. You can try, of course, but it doesn’t work. People obeying rules laid down my somebody else is not the same thing as respecting life. And if you want to respect life, you have to draw a line.
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Every authentic poem contributes to the labor of poetry… to bring together what life has separated or violence has torn apart…
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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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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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The publicity image steals her love of herself as she is, and offers it back to her for the price of the product.
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Every painted image of something is also about the absence of the real thing. All painting is about the presence of absence.
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