Today the discredit of words is very great.
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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No painting or drawing, however naturalist, belongs to its subject in the way that a photograph does.
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We never look at just one thing; we are always looking at the relation between things and ourselves.
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This was once achieved by extensive deprivation. Today in the developed countries it is being achieved by imposing a false standard of what is and what is not desirable.
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Every authentic poem contributes to the labour of poetry… to bring together what life has separated or violence has torn apart.
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A photograph is a result of the photographer’s decision that it is worth recording that this particular event or this particular object has been seen. If everything that existed were continually being photographed, every photograph would become meaningless.
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Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.
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Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.
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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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A peasant becomes fond of his pig and is glad to salt away its pork.
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Fanaticism comes from any form of chosen blindness accompanying the pursuit of a single dogma.
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Hair is associated with sexual power. With passion.
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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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Painting is something that you need to do, if not every day, then certainly most days. It is almost like being a pianist: if you stop, you lose something.
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Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion.
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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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