Writers who have neither product utopian trash.
JOHN BERGERThere’s the artist’s intimacy and truthfulness to himself, but an equal intimacy to the Other [the one drawn].
More John Berger Quotes
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The relation between what we see and what we know is never settled. Each evening we see the sun set.
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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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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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The envied are like bureaucrats; the more impersonal they are, the greater the illusion (for themselves and for others) of their power.
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Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.
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A peasant becomes fond of his pig and is glad to salt away its pork.
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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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Every authentic poem contributes to the labour of poetry… to bring together what life has separated or violence has torn apart.
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Hope is a contraband passed from hand to hand and story to story.
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Between the experience of living a normal life at this moment on the planet and the public narratives being offered to give a sense to that life, the empty space, the gap, is enormous.
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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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Capitalism survives by forcing the majority, whom it exploits, to define their own interests as narrowly as possible.
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All creation is in the art of seeing.
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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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Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.
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