Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.
JOHN BERGERWe know that the earth is turning away from it. Yet the knowledge, the explanation, never quite fits the sight.
More John Berger Quotes
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But toemigrate is always to dismantle the centre of the world, and so to move into a lost, disoriented one of fragments.
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Capitalism survives by forcing the majority, whom it exploits, to define their own interests as narrowly as possible.
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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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The time of a cigarette is a parenthesis, and if it is shared, you are both in that parenthesis. Its like a proscenium arch for a dialogue.
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As Nelson Mandela has pointed out, boycott is not a principle, it is a tactic depending upon circumstances.
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The unsung, impersonal world remains outside, on the other surface of a placenta. All songs, even when their content or rendering is strongly masculine, operate maternally.
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What is saved in the cinema when it achieves art is a spontaneous continuity with all mankind.
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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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Deep in the nature of theatre is a sense of ritual. The cinema, by contrast, transports its audience individually, singly, out of the theatre towards the unknown.
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The impulse to paint comes neither from observation nor from the soul (which is probably blind) but from an encounter: the encounter between painter and model: even if the model is a mountain or a shelf of empty medicine bottles.
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The 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.
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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.
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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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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 extreme proposition on which Giacometti based all his mature work was that no reality… could ever be shared. This is why he believed it impossible for a work to be finished. This is why the content of any work is not the nature of the figure or head portrayed but the incomplete history of him staring at it.
JOHN BERGER