Pleasure and pain need to be considered together; they are inseparable. Yet the space filled by each is perhaps different. Pleasure, defined as a sense of gratification, is essential for nature
JOHN BERGERNever chain your dogs together with sausages. One must accustom one’s self to be bored.
More John Berger Quotes
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A photograph is a meeting place where the interests of the photographer, the photographed, the viewer and those who are using the photograph are often contradictory.
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For the Cro-Magnons, space is a metaphysical arena of continually intermittent appearances and disappearances.
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The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich.
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Paintings record what the painter remembers. Because each one of us forgets different things, a photo more than a painting may change its meaning according to who is looking at it.
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Without ethics man has no future. This is to say mankind without them cannot be itself.
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A man’s presence suggests what he is capable of doing to you or for you.
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The relation between what we see and what we know is never settled. Each evening we see the sun set.
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For the artist, drawing is discovery. And that is not just a slick phrase; it is quite literally true.
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It can happen that a book, unlike its authors, grows younger as the years pass.
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The zoo cannot but disappoint. The public purpose of zoos is to offer visitors the opportunity of looking at animals.
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Photography, because it stops the flow of life, is always flirting with death.
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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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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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The contradiction in perspective was that it structured all images of reality to address a single spectator who, unlike God, could only be in one place at a time.
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Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion.
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