Quote by John Berger
The strange power of art is sometimes it can show that what people

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 its something that theatre can do, but its rare; its very rare. – John Berger

Other quotes by John Berger

Nothing in the nature around us is evil. This needs to be repeated since one of the human ways of talking oneself into inhuman acts is to cite the supposed cruelty of nature. – John Berger

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Evil
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One can say of language that it is potentially the only human home, the only dwelling place that cannot be hostile to man. – John Berger

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Language
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The envied are like bureaucrats; the more impersonal they are, the greater the illusion (for themselves and for others) of their power. – John Berger

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Envy / Jealousy
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Other Quotes from
Art
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A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears. – Gertrude Stein

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Art

Art is spirituality in drag. – Jennifer Yane

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Art

Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers – and never succeeding. – Gian Carlo Menotti

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Art

Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead. – W. H. Auden

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Art

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When one has the feeling of dislike for evil, when one feels tranquil, one finds pleasure in listening to good teachings when one has these feelings and appreciates them, one is free of fear. – Buddha

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Dont say you dont have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein. – H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

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I never think about poetry except when Im writing it. I mean my poetry. – Norman MacCaig

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Poetry

In science fiction, you can also test out your own realities. – Theodore Sturgeon

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Science