To remain innocent may also be. to remain ignorant.
JOHN BERGERThose who first invented and then named the constellations were storytellers.
More John Berger Quotes
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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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The spectator-buyer is meant to envy herself as she will become if she buys the product.
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A man’s presence suggests what he is capable of doing to you or for you.
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Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.
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Writers who have neither product utopian trash.
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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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Ethics determine choices and actions and suggest difficult priorities.
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All creation is in the art of seeing.
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For the Cro-Magnons, space is a metaphysical arena of continually intermittent appearances and disappearances.
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Hair is associated with sexual power. With passion.
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For the artist, drawing is discovery. And that is not just a slick phrase; it is quite literally true.
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If everything that existed were continually being photographed, every photograph would become meaningless.
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The surveyor of woman in herself is male: the surveyed female. Thus she turns herself into an object – and most particularly an object of vision: a sight.
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The camera relieves us of the burden of memory.
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The heart of Paris is like nothing so much as the unending interior of a house.
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