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.
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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The animal has secrets which, unlike the secrets of caves, mountains, seas are specifically addressed to man.
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Ours is the century of enforced travel of disappearances.
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When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls.
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All publicity works upon anxiety.
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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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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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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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Your lips, beloved, are like a honeycomb: honey and milk are under the tongue. And the smell of your clothes is like the smell of my home.
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Nakedness reveals itself. Nudity is placed on display. The nude is condemned to never being naked. Nudity is a form of dress.
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Never again shall a single story be told as though it were the only one.
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The camera relieves us of the burden of memory. It surveys us like God, and it surveys for us. Yet no other god has been so cynical, for the camera records in order to forget.
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For the artist, drawing is discovery. And that is not just a slick phrase; it is quite literally true.
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In the modern world, in which thousands of people are dying every hour as a consequence of politics, no writing anywhere can begin to be credible unless it is informed by political awareness and principles.
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The century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to them, disappear over the horizon.
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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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