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.
JOHN BERGERThe publicity image steals her love of herself as she is, and offers it back to her for the price of the product.
More John Berger Quotes
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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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Yet the first symbols were animals. What distinguished men from animals was born of their relationship with them.
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[O]ften art has judged the judges, pleaded revenge to the innocent and shown to the future what the past suffered, so that it has never been forgotten.
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Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.
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Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.
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Everything became exchangeable because everything became a commodity.
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The heart of Paris is like nothing so much as the unending interior of a house.
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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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Paintings record what the painter remembers. Because each one of us forgets different things, a photo more than a painting may change its meaning according to who is looking at it.
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Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak.
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Traditional Chinese art looked at the Earth from a Confucian mountain top;
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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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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.
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Compassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural.
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My heart born naked was swaddled in lullabies.
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