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Between the experience of living a normal life at this moment on the planet and the public narratives being offered to give a sense to that life, the empty space, the gap, is enormous.

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The strange power of art is sometimes it can show that what people have in common is more urgent than what differentiates them. It seems to me it’s something that theatre can do, but it’s rare; it’s very rare.
JOHN BERGER

Art Common Differentiate More People Power Rare Sometimes Strange Theatre Urgent
The impulse to paint comes neither from observation nor from the soul (which is probably blind) but from an encounter: the encounter between painter and model: even if the model is a mountain or a shelf of empty medicine bottles.
JOHN BERGER

Blind Bottle Come Encounter Impulse Medicine Mountain Observation Soul
What distinguished man from animals was the human capacity for symbolic thought, the capacity which was inseparable from the development of language in which words were not mere signals, but signifiers of something other than themselves.
JOHN BERGER

Animal Capacity Development First Human In Language Men Separate Signal Symbolic
In the average European oil painting of the nude the principal protagonist is never painted. He is the spectator in front of the picture and he is presumed to be a man.
JOHN BERGER

Average Country Men never Painting Presume Principal Protagonist Rude Spectator
Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity.
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Basis Compassion Natural Necessity Operate Order Place World
Photographs bear witness to a human choice being exercised in a given situation.
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Choice Decision Given Photography Situation
Without ethics man has no future. This is to say mankind without them cannot be itself.
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Choices Ethics Future Itself Mankind Men Priorities
A photograph is a meeting place where the interests of the photographer, the photographed, the viewer and those who are using the photograph are often contradictory.
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Contradiction Interest Meeting Natural Photo Photographer Place Use Viewer
The woman’s sexual passion needs to be minimized, so that the spectator may feel that he has the monopoly on such passion
JOHN BERGER

Feel May Minimize Monopoly Need Passion Sexual Spectator Such Women
Tracing an imaginary line between a cluster of stars gave them an image and an identity.
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Between Cluster Gave Identity Image Imaginary Star Trace
The contradiction in perspective was that it structured all images of reality to address a single spectator who, unlike God, could only be in one place at a time.
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Addresses Adorable Contradiction God Image Perspective Reality Really Single Spectator Structure Unlike
We only see what we look at. To look is an act of choice.
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Act Choice Look Only See
History always constitutes the relation between a present and its past. Consequently fear of the present leads to mystification of the past
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Always Constitute History Past Present Relation
Capitalism survives by forcing the majority, whom it exploits, to define their own interests as narrowly as possible.
JOHN BERGER

Capitalism Country Define Exploit Interest Majority Narrow Possible Survive Today
It is not an art of the princes or the bourgeoisie. It is popular and vagrant. In the sky of the cinema people learn what they might have been and discover what belongs to them apart from their single lives.
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Art Bourgeoisie Cinema Discover Learn People Popular Princes Single Sky Vagrant
This determines not only most relations between men and women but also the relation of women to themselves.
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Determine Effection Men Most Only Relation Relationship Themselves Wome

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