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.
JOHN BERGERIf everything that existed were continually being photographed, every photograph would become meaningless.
More John Berger Quotes
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A peasant becomes fond of his pig and is glad to salt away its pork.
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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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Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.
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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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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 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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One of the fundamental reasons why so many doctors become cynical and disillusioned is precisely because, when the abstract idealism has worn thin, they are uncertain about the value of the actual lives of the patients they are treating.
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The existence of pleasure is the first mystery. The existence of pain has prompted far more philosophical speculation.
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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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Hope is a contraband passed from hand to hand and story to story.
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In the average European oil painting of the nude the principal protagonist is never painted. He is the spectator in front of the picture and he is presumed to be a man.
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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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We know that the earth is turning away from it. Yet the knowledge, the explanation, never quite fits the sight.
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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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Oil painting did to appearances what capital did to social relations. It reduced everything to the equality of objects.
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