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

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Ours is the century of enforced travel of disappearances. The century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to them, disappear over the horizon. – John Berger

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Travel
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Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form. – John Berger

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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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The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with. – Golda Meir

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Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself. – Bertrand Russell

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Picasso would give up cubism just to capture your curves. – Konfal Blyther

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Art is either plagiarism or revolution. – Paul Gauguin

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