Post-modernism has cut off the present from all futures. The daily media add to this by cutting off the past. Which means that critical opinion is often orphaned in the present.
JOHN BERGERWriters who have neither product utopian trash.
More John Berger Quotes
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I use charcoal a lot. Partly because it has such a fantastic range but also because it is very easy to erase.
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As Nelson Mandela has pointed out, boycott is not a principle, it is a tactic depending upon circumstances.
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In the modern world, in which thousands of people are dying every hour as a consequence of politics, no writing anywhere can begin to be credible unless it is informed by political awareness and principles.
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Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.
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Traditional Chinese art looked at the Earth from a Confucian mountain top;
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By contrast, a woman’s presence… defines what can and cannot be done to her.
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This determines not only most relations between men and women but also the relation of women to themselves.
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Oil painting did to appearances what capital did to social relations. It reduced everything to the equality of objects.
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The zoo cannot but disappoint. The public purpose of zoos is to offer visitors the opportunity of looking at animals.
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You can plan events, but if they go according to your plan they are not events.
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Drawing is a way of coming upon the connection between things, just like metaphor in poetry reconnects what has become separated.
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Everything became exchangeable because everything became a commodity.
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To be naked is to be oneself. To be nude is to be seen naked by others and yet not recognised for oneself.
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To be naked is to be oneself.
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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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