Those who first invented and then named the constellations were storytellers.
JOHN BERGERPublicity is the life of this culture – in so far as without publicity capitalism could not survive – and at the same time publicity is its dream.
More John Berger Quotes
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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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In the average European oil painting of the nude the principal protagonist is never painted. He is the spectator in front of the picture and he is presumed to be a man.
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A photograph is a result of the photographer’s decision that it is worth recording that this particular event or this particular object has been seen. If everything that existed were continually being photographed, every photograph would become meaningless.
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Hair is associated with sexual power. With passion.
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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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What do drawings mean to me? I really don’t know. The activity absorbs me. I forget everything else in a way that I don’t think happens with any other activity.
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Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.
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Compassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural.
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Everything in life, is a question of drawing a life, John, and you have to decide for yourself where to draw it.
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These contradictions both hide and increase the natural ambiguity of the photographic image.
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Ours is the century of enforced travel of disappearances.
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My heart born naked was swaddled in lullabies.
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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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To be naked is to be oneself.
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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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