My heart born naked was swaddled in lullabies.
JOHN BERGERThis determines not only most relations between men and women but also the relation of women to themselves.
More John Berger Quotes
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Protest and anger practically always derives from hope, and the shouting out against injustice is always in the hope of those injustices being somewhat corrected and a little more justice established.
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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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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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The zoo cannot but disappoint.
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Tracing an imaginary line between a cluster of stars gave them an image and an identity.
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Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.
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One can say of language that it is potentially the only human home, the only dwelling place that cannot be hostile to man.
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To be desired is perhaps the closest anybody in this life can reach to feeling immortal.
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When we suffer anguish we return to early childhood because that is the period in which we first learnt to suffer the experience of total loss.
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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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I wanted to write about looking at the world, so it’s more about helping people, or persuading people, to see what is around us; both the marvellous and the terrible.
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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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[O]ften art has judged the judges, pleaded revenge to the innocent and shown to the future what the past suffered, so that it has never been forgotten.
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Never chain your dogs together with sausages. One must accustom one’s self to be bored.
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Fanaticism comes from any form of chosen blindness accompanying the pursuit of a single dogma.
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