By contrast, a woman’s presence… defines what can and cannot be done to her.
JOHN BERGEREverything became exchangeable because everything became a commodity.
More John Berger Quotes
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To live and die amongst foreigners may seem less absurd than to live persecuted or tortured by one’s fellow countrymen….
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What is to happen next will take place within the four walls of the story. And this is possible because the story’s voice makes everything its own.
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All creation is in the art of seeing.
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To remain innocent may also be. to remain ignorant.
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Without ethics man has no future. This is to say mankind without them cannot be itself.
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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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Capitalism survives by forcing the majority, whom it exploits, to define their own interests as narrowly as possible.
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The camera relieves us of the burden of memory.
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If everything that existed were continually being photographed, every photograph would become meaningless.
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The contradiction in perspective was that it structured all images of reality to address a single spectator who, unlike God, could only be in one place at a time.
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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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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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At times failure is very necessary for the artist. It reminds him that failure is not the ultimate disaster. And this reminder liberates him from the mean fussing of perfectionism.
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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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There’s the artist’s intimacy and truthfulness to himself, but an equal intimacy to the Other [the one drawn].
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