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John Berger

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John Berger Quotes

Total quotes: 4

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John Berger

Birthname

AKA: John Berger

Birthday: November 5, 1926

Birthplace: United Kingdom

Death: January 2, 2017

Educated At: Central School Of Art And Design, Chelsea College Of Art And Design

Nationality: United Kingdom

Occupations: Painter, Art Historian, Journalist, Novelist, Screenwriter

Total quotes: 4

“To be desired is perhaps the closest anybody in this life can reach to feeling immortal.”

— John Berger, Bento's Sketchbook

Tagged: Love, Desire, admiration, Immortality

“Every city has a sex and an age which have nothing to do with demography. Rome is feminine. So is Odessa. London is a teenager, an urchin, and, in this, hasn’t change since the time of Dickens. Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.”

— John Berger, Keeping a Rendezvous

Tagged: fiction, Belief, Origin

“You painted a naked woman because you enjoyed looking at her, put a mirror in her hand and you called the painting “Vanity,” thus morally condemning the woman whose nakedness you had depicted for you own pleasure.”

— John Berger, Ways Of Seeing

Tagged: Art, Painting, Vanity, Girl Power, Sexism, Gender Wars

“And the smell of your clothes is like the smell of my home.”

— John Berger, A quote by John Berger

Tagged: Memories, Sweet Message, Missing A Lover, Lover, comfortable, senses

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