Landscapes can be deceptive. Sometimes a landscape seems to be less a setting for the life of its inhabitants than a curtain behind which their struggles, achievements and accidents takes place.
JOHN BERGEROurs is the century of enforced travel of disappearances.
More John Berger Quotes
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It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open.
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Capitalism survives by forcing the majority, whom it exploits, to define their own interests as narrowly as possible.
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A man’s presence suggests what he is capable of doing to you or for you.
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It was more than that. It was the period in which we suffered more total losses than in all the rest of our life put together.
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The unsung, impersonal world remains outside, on the other surface of a placenta. All songs, even when their content or rendering is strongly masculine, operate maternally.
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Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time has become Death triumphant over all.
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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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The true content of a photograph is invisible, for it derives from a play, not with form, but with time.
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Whenever he looked he saw the labour of existence; and this labour, recognised as such, was what constituted reality for him. (On Vincent Van Gogh)
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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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Writers who have neither product utopian trash.
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(The sight of it as an object stimulates the use of it as an object.) Nakedness reveals itself. Nudity is placed on display. To be naked is to be without disguises.
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The century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to them, disappear over the horizon.
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A photograph is a result of the photographer’s decision that it is worth recording that this particular event or this particular object has been seen. If everything that existed were continually being photographed, every photograph would become meaningless.
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The strange power of art is sometimes it can show that what people have in common is more urgent than what differentiates them. It seems to me it’s something that theatre can do, but it’s rare; it’s very rare.
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