The true content of a photograph is invisible, for it derives from a play, not with form, but with time.
JOHN BERGERA peasant becomes fond of his pig and is glad to salt away its pork.
More John Berger Quotes
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The animal has secrets which, unlike the secrets of caves, mountains, seas are specifically addressed to man.
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We who draw do so not only to make something observed visible to others, but also to accompany something invisible to its incalculable destination
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The existence of pleasure is the first mystery. The existence of pain has prompted far more philosophical speculation.
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To remain innocent may also be. to remain ignorant.
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Ever since the Greek tragedies, artists have, from time to time, asked themselves how they might influence ongoing political events.
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All publicity works upon anxiety.
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But toemigrate is always to dismantle the centre of the world, and so to move into a lost, disoriented one of fragments.
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Traditional Chinese art looked at the Earth from a Confucian mountain top;
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Later alone it wore poems for clothes. Like a shirt I carried on my back the poetry I had read. So I lived for half a century until wordlessly we met. From my shirt on the back of the chair I learn tonight how many years of learning by heart I waited for you.
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Hair is associated with sexual power. With passion.
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If every event which occurred could be given a name, there would be no need for stories.
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Compare the cinema with theatre. Both are dramatic arts. Theatre brings actors before a public and every night during the season they re-enact the same drama.
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Painting is something that you need to do, if not every day, then certainly most days. It is almost like being a pianist: if you stop, you lose something.
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This is not because they are callous or personally inhuman: it is because they live in and accept a society which is incapable of knowing what a human life is worth.
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Hope is a contraband passed from hand to hand and story to story.
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