Everything in life, is a question of drawing a life, John, and you have to decide for yourself where to draw it.
JOHN BERGEREvery authentic poem contributes to the labor of poetry… to bring together what life has separated or violence has torn apart…
More John Berger Quotes
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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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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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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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Today the discredit of words is very great.
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All weddings are similar, but every marriage is different.
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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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Those who first invented and then named the constellations were storytellers.
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A photograph is a meeting place where the interests of the photographer, the photographed, the viewer and those who are using the photograph are often contradictory.
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A tactic which allows people, as distinct from their elected but often craven governments, to apply a certain pressure on those wielding power in what they, the boycotters, consider to be an unjust or immoral way.
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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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Matisse did neither. He clashed his colours together like cymbals and the effect was like a lullaby.
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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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Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion.
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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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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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