This determines not only most relations between men and women but also the relation of women to themselves.
JOHN BERGERWhen he painted a road, the roadmakers were there in his imagination, when he painted the turned earth of a ploughed field, the gesture of the blade turning the earth was included in his own act.
More John Berger Quotes
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Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak.
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Compare the cinema with theatre. Both are dramatic arts. Theatre brings actors before a public and every night during the season they re-enact the same drama.
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Nothing in the nature around us is evil. This needs to be repeated since one of the human ways of talking oneself into inhuman acts is to cite the supposed cruelty of nature.
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You can plan events, but if they go according to your plan they are not events.
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Tracing an imaginary line between a cluster of stars gave them an image and an identity.
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The camera relieves us of the burden of memory. It surveys us like God, and it surveys for us. Yet no other god has been so cynical, for the camera records in order to forget.
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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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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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Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity.
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Matisse did neither. He clashed his colours together like cymbals and the effect was like a lullaby.
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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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Emigration, forced or chosen, across national frontiers or from village to metropolis, is the quintessential experience of our time.
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To be desired is perhaps the closest anybody in this life can reach to feeling immortal.
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Everything became exchangeable because everything became a commodity.
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Never chain your dogs together with sausages. One must accustom one’s self to be bored.
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