The woman’s sexual passion needs to be minimized, so that the spectator may feel that he has the monopoly on such passion
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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The relation between what we see and what we know is never settled. Each evening we see the sun set.
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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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Never again shall a single story be told as though it were the only one.
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Ours is the century of enforced travel of disappearances.
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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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What any true painting touches is an absence – an absence of which without the painting, we might be unaware. And that would be our loss.
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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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Yet the first symbols were animals. What distinguished men from animals was born of their relationship with them.
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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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By contrast, a woman’s presence… defines what can and cannot be done to her.
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The zoo cannot but disappoint. The public purpose of zoos is to offer visitors the opportunity of looking at animals.
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Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion.
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Never chain your dogs together with sausages. One must accustom one’s self to be bored.
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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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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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