Fanaticism comes from any form of chosen blindness accompanying the pursuit of a single dogma.
JOHN BERGERThe woman’s sexual passion needs to be minimized, so that the spectator may feel that he has the monopoly on such passion
More John Berger Quotes
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To remain innocent may also be. to remain ignorant.
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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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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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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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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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The human imagination… has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist practice or philosophy.
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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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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.
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When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls.
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We follow songs in order to be enclosed. We find ourselves inside a message.
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What is significant, and is so difficult for the urban stranger to understand, is that the two statements are connected by an and not by a but.
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We can become anything. That is why injustice is impossible here. There may be the accident of birth, there is no accident of death. Nothing forces us to remain what we were.
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Publicity is the life of this culture – in so far as without publicity capitalism could not survive – and at the same time publicity is its dream.
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Those who first invented and then named the constellations were storytellers.
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Words are so often used in the opposite sense, as a screen of diversion. It’s the struggle towards truthfulness which is the same whether one is writing a poem, a novel or an argument.
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