The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.
JOHN BERGERFor those who are behind the curtain, landmarks are no longer only geographic but also biographical and personal
More John Berger Quotes
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The surveyor of woman in herself is male: the surveyed female. Thus she turns herself into an object – and most particularly an object of vision: a sight.
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Deep in the nature of theatre is a sense of ritual. The cinema, by contrast, transports its audience individually, singly, out of the theatre towards the unknown.
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Fanaticism comes from any form of chosen blindness accompanying the pursuit of a single dogma.
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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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Nothing in the nature around us is evil. This needs to be repeated since one of the human ways of talking oneself into inhuman acts is to cite the supposed cruelty of nature.
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Japanese art looked closely around screens; Italian Renaissance art surveyed conquered nature through the window or door-frame of a palace.
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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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Photographs bear witness to a human choice being exercised in a given situation.
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We never look at just one thing; we are always looking at the relation between things and ourselves.
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The zoo cannot but disappoint.
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Never again shall a single story be told as though it were the only one.
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The camera relieves us of the burden of memory. It surveys us like God, and it surveys for us. Yet no other god has been so cynical, for the camera records in order to forget.
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Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.
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Hope is a contraband passed from hand to hand and story to story.
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The human imagination… has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist practice or philosophy.
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