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.
JOHN BERGERAs Nelson Mandela has pointed out, boycott is not a principle, it is a tactic depending upon circumstances.
More John Berger Quotes
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A cigarette is a breathing space. It makes a parenthesis.
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Ours is the century of enforced travel of disappearances.
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Every painted image of something is also about the absence of the real thing. All painting is about the presence of absence.
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Common-sense is part of the home-made ideology of those who have been deprived of fundamental learning, of those who have been kept ignorant.
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We follow songs in order to be enclosed. We find ourselves inside a message.
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By contrast, a woman’s presence… defines what can and cannot be done to her.
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Hair is associated with sexual power. With passion.
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What any true painting touches is an absence – an absence of which without the painting, we might be unaware. And that would be our loss.
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The past is the one thing we are not prisoners of. We can do with the past exactly what we wish. What we can’t do is to change its consequences.
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You are observed with interest but you do not observe with interest – if you do, you will become less enviable. In this respect the envied are like bureaucrats; the more impersonal they are, the greater the illusion (for themselves and for others) of their power.
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The essence of songs is neither vocal nor cerebral but organic.
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Emigration, forced or chosen, across national frontiers or from village to metropolis, is the quintessential experience of our time.
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My heart born naked was swaddled in lullabies.
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We who draw do so not only to make something observed visible to others, but also to accompany something invisible to its incalculable destination
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Pleasure and pain need to be considered together; they are inseparable. Yet the space filled by each is perhaps different. Pleasure, defined as a sense of gratification, is essential for nature
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