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 BERGERTo be desired is perhaps the closest anybody in this life can reach to feeling immortal.
More John Berger Quotes
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Your lips, beloved, are like a honeycomb: honey and milk are under the tongue. And the smell of your clothes is like the smell of my home.
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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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Common-sense is part of the home-made ideology of those who have been deprived of fundamental learning, of those who have been kept ignorant.
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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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One can say of language that it is potentially the only human home, the only dwelling place that cannot be hostile to man.
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Everything in life, is a question of drawing a life, John, and you have to decide for yourself where to draw it.
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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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The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.
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Nakedness reveals itself. Nudity is placed on display. The nude is condemned to never being naked. Nudity is a form of dress.
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Those who first invented and then named the constellations were storytellers.
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The happiness of being envied is glamour. Being envied is a solitary form of reassurance. It depends precisely upon not sharing your experience with those who envy you.
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Traditional Chinese art looked at the Earth from a Confucian mountain top;
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The century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to them, disappear over the horizon.
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Do you know the legend about cicadas? They say they are the souls of poets who cannot keep quiet because, when they were alive, they never wrote the poems they wanted to.
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Ours is the century of enforced travel of disappearances.
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