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 BERGERHair is associated with sexual power. With passion.
More John Berger Quotes
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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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Every painted image of something is also about the absence of the real thing. All painting is about the presence of absence.
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Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak.
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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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A drawing is essentially a private work, related only to the artist’s own needs; a ‘finished’ statue or canvas is essentially a public, presented work – related far more directly to the demands of communication.
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The spectator-buyer is meant to envy herself as she will become if she buys the product.
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If the public photograph contributes to a memory, it is to the memory of an unknowable and total stranger.
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Poetry can repair no loss, but it defies the space which separates. And it does this by its continual labor of reassembling what has been scattered.
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The animal has secrets which, unlike the secrets of caves, mountains, seas are specifically addressed to man.
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To be naked is to be oneself. To be nude is to be seen naked by others and yet not recognized for oneself. A naked body has to be seen as an object in order to become a nude.
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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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The publicity image steals her love of herself as she is, and offers it back to her for the price of the product.
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By contrast, a woman’s presence… defines what can and cannot be done to her.
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Today the discredit of words is very great.
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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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Advertising is not merely an assembly of competing messages; it is a language itself which is always being used to make the same general proposal
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Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time has become Death triumphant over all.
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For those who are behind the curtain, landmarks are no longer only geographic but also biographical and personal
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Photographs bear witness to a human choice being exercised in a given situation.
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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
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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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At times failure is very necessary for the artist. It reminds him that failure is not the ultimate disaster. And this reminder liberates him from the mean fussing of perfectionism.
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One can say of language that it is potentially the only human home, the only dwelling place that cannot be hostile to man.
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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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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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Hope is a contraband passed from hand to hand and story to story.
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