There’s the artist’s intimacy and truthfulness to himself, but an equal intimacy to the Other [the one drawn].
JOHN BERGERWhen we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls.
More John Berger Quotes
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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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What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time.
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We know that the earth is turning away from it. Yet the knowledge, the explanation, never quite fits the sight.
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Hair is associated with sexual power. With passion.
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The animal has secrets which, unlike the secrets of caves, mountains, seas are specifically addressed to man.
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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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Post-modernism has cut off the present from all futures. The daily media add to this by cutting off the past. Which means that critical opinion is often orphaned in the present.
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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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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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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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One of the fundamental reasons why so many doctors become cynical and disillusioned is precisely because, when the abstract idealism has worn thin, they are uncertain about the value of the actual lives of the patients they are treating.
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For the Cro-Magnons, space is a metaphysical arena of continually intermittent appearances and disappearances.
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All publicity works upon anxiety.
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History always constitutes the relation between a present and its past. Consequently fear of the present leads to mystification of the past
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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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