This determines not only most relations between men and women but also the relation of women to themselves.
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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It was more than that. It was the period in which we suffered more total losses than in all the rest of our life put together.
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Your lips, beloved, are like a honeycomb: honey and milk are under the tongue. And the smell of your clothes is like the smell of my home.
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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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Yet the first symbols were animals. What distinguished men from animals was born of their relationship with them.
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Nothing in the nature around us is evil. This needs to be repeated since one of the human ways of talking oneself into inhuman acts is to cite the supposed cruelty of nature.
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The opposite of love is not to hate but to separate. If love and hate have something in common it is because, in both cases, their energy is that of bringing and holding together
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Do you know the legend about cicadas? They say they are the souls of poets who cannot keep quiet because, when they were alive, they never wrote the poems they wanted to.
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It is not an art of the princes or the bourgeoisie. It is popular and vagrant. In the sky of the cinema people learn what they might have been and discover what belongs to them apart from their single lives.
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Traditional Chinese art looked at the Earth from a Confucian mountain top;
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Tracing an imaginary line between a cluster of stars gave them an image and an identity.
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The existence of pleasure is the first mystery. The existence of pain has prompted far more philosophical speculation.
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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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The essence of songs is neither vocal nor cerebral but organic.
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It is seeing which establishes our place in the surrounding world; we explain that world with words, but words can never undo the fact that we are surrounded by it
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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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