Never chain your dogs together with sausages. One must accustom one’s self to be bored.
JOHN BERGERThe happiness of being envied is glamour. Being envied is a solitary form of reassurance. It depends precisely upon not sharing your experience with those who envy you.
More John Berger Quotes
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Drawing is a way of coming upon the connection between things, just like metaphor in poetry reconnects what has become separated.
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To be naked is to be oneself.
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Photographs bear witness to a human choice being exercised in a given situation.
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Ever since the Greek tragedies, artists have, from time to time, asked themselves how they might influence ongoing political events.
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Traditional Chinese art looked at the Earth from a Confucian mountain top;
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What do drawings mean to me? I really don’t know. The activity absorbs me. I forget everything else in a way that I don’t think happens with any other activity.
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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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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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Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.
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Compassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural.
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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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Writers who have neither product utopian trash.
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A tactic which allows people, as distinct from their elected but often craven governments, to apply a certain pressure on those wielding power in what they, the boycotters, consider to be an unjust or immoral way.
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Hair is associated with sexual power. With passion.
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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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