Hair is associated with sexual power. With passion.
JOHN BERGEREmigration, forced or chosen, across national frontiers or from village to metropolis, is the quintessential experience of our time.
More John Berger Quotes
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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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Japanese art looked closely around screens; Italian Renaissance art surveyed conquered nature through the window or door-frame of a palace.
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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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For me, drawing is a lot to do with taking out, with returning to the white of the paper.
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Never chain your dogs together with sausages. One must accustom one’s self to be bored.
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Photography, because it stops the flow of life, is always flirting with death.
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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 power of the glamorous resides in their supposed happiness: the power of the bureaucrat in his supposed authority.
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I can’t tell you what art does and how it does it, but I know that often 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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If every event which occurred could be given a name, there would be no need for stories.
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Oil painting did to appearances what capital did to social relations. It reduced everything to the equality of objects.
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My heart born naked was swaddled in lullabies.
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Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.
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This is not because they are callous or personally inhuman: it is because they live in and accept a society which is incapable of knowing what a human life is worth.
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Capitalism survives by forcing the majority, whom it exploits, to define their own interests as narrowly as possible.
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