This determines not only most relations between men and women but also the relation of women to themselves.
JOHN BERGER
Every painted image of something is also about the absence of the real thing. All painting is about the presence of absence.
More John Berger Quotes
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This determines not only most relations between men and women but also the relation of women to themselves.
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The strange power of art is sometimes it can show that what people have in common is more urgent than what differentiates them. It seems to me it’s something that theatre can do, but it’s rare; it’s very rare.
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You can plan events, but if they go according to your plan they are not events.
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But toemigrate is always to dismantle the centre of the world, and so to move into a lost, disoriented one of fragments.
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Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak.
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To be naked is to be oneself. To be nude is to be seen naked by others and yet not recognised for oneself.
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We never look at just one thing; we are always looking at the relation between things and ourselves.
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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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A peasant becomes fond of his pig and is glad to salt away its pork.
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The human imagination… has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist practice or philosophy.
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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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Photographs bear witness to a human choice being exercised in a given situation.
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Nothing fortuitous happens in a child’s world. There are no accidents. Everything is connected with everything else and everything can be explained by everything else. . . . For a young child everything that happens is a necessity.
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Every authentic poem contributes to the labour of poetry… to bring together what life has separated or violence has torn apart.
JOHN BERGER