Those who first invented and then named the constellations were storytellers.
JOHN BERGERLater 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.
More John Berger Quotes
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Today the discredit of words is very great.
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When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls.
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We follow songs in order to be enclosed. We find ourselves inside a message.
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A peasant becomes fond of his pig and is glad to salt away its pork.
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Everything became exchangeable because everything became a commodity.
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We only see what we look at. To look is an act of choice.
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Photography, because it stops the flow of life, is always flirting with death.
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It is not usually possible in a poem or a story to make the relationship between particular and universal fully explicit. Those who try to do so end up writing parables.
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We know that the earth is turning away from it. Yet the knowledge, the explanation, never quite fits the sight.
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Art, when it functions like this, becomes a meeting-place of the invisible, the irreducible, the enduring, guts, and honor.
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A drawing is an autobiographical record of one’s discovery of an event – either seen, remembered or imagined. A ‘finished’ work is an attempt to construct an event in itself.
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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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The time of a cigarette is a parenthesis, and if it is shared, you are both in that parenthesis. Its like a proscenium arch for a dialogue.
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Unlike any other visual image, a photograph is not a rendering, an imitation or an interpretation of its subject, but actually a trace of it.
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These contradictions both hide and increase the natural ambiguity of the photographic image.
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