The animal has secrets which, unlike the secrets of caves, mountains, seas are specifically addressed to man.
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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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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The happiness of being envied is glamour. Being envied is a solitary form of reassurance. It depends precisely upon not sharing your experience with those who envy you.
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That we find a crystal or a poppy beautiful means that we are less alone, that we are more deeply inserted into existence than the course of a single life would lead us to believe.
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I use charcoal a lot. Partly because it has such a fantastic range but also because it is very easy to erase.
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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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All photographs are there to remind us of what we forget. In this – as in other ways – they are the opposite of paintings.
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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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The time of a cigarette is a parenthesis, and if it is shared, you are both in that parenthesis. Its like a proscenium arch for a dialogue.
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Photography, because it stops the flow of life, is always flirting with death.
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Those who first invented and then named the constellations were storytellers.
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Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time has become Death triumphant over all.
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This was once achieved by extensive deprivation. Today in the developed countries it is being achieved by imposing a false standard of what is and what is not desirable.
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Photographs bear witness to a human choice being exercised in a given situation.
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Never again shall a single story be told as though it were the only one.
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Picasso drawings are like that… the Rembrandts are like that. The artist who most often did that was Van Gogh.
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