Never chain your dogs together with sausages. One must accustom one’s self to be bored.
JOHN BERGERIf everything that existed were continually being photographed, every photograph would become meaningless.
More John Berger Quotes
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My heart born naked was swaddled in lullabies.
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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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When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls.
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(The sight of it as an object stimulates the use of it as an object.) Nakedness reveals itself. Nudity is placed on display. To be naked is to be without disguises.
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It is not usually possible in a poem or a story to make the relationship between particular and universal fully explicit. Those who try to do so end up writing parables.
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Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.
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Every city has a sex and an age which have nothing to do with demography. Rome is feminine. So is Odessa. London is a teenager, an urchin, and, in this, hasn’t changed since the time of Dickens. Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.
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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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No painting or drawing, however naturalist, belongs to its subject in the way that a photograph does.
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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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The power of the glamorous resides in their supposed happiness: the power of the bureaucrat in his supposed authority.
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The zoo cannot but disappoint.
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Whenever he looked he saw the labour of existence; and this labour, recognised as such, was what constituted reality for him. (On Vincent Van Gogh)
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Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.
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The surveyor of woman in herself is male: the surveyed female. Thus she turns herself into an object – and most particularly an object of vision: a sight.
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