As Nelson Mandela has pointed out, boycott is not a principle, it is a tactic depending upon circumstances.
JOHN BERGEROurs is the century of enforced travel of disappearances.
More John Berger Quotes
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What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time.
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Pleasure and pain need to be considered together; they are inseparable. Yet the space filled by each is perhaps different. Pleasure, defined as a sense of gratification, is essential for nature
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Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak.
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The stars threaded on that line were like events threaded on a narrative. Imagining the constellations did not of course change the stars, nor did it change the black emptiness that surrounds them. What it changed was the way people read the night sky.
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To be desired is perhaps the closest anybody in this life can reach to feeling immortal.
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To remain innocent may also be. to remain ignorant.
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The extreme proposition on which Giacometti based all his mature work was that no reality… could ever be shared. This is why he believed it impossible for a work to be finished. This is why the content of any work is not the nature of the figure or head portrayed but the incomplete history of him staring at it.
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We follow songs in order to be enclosed. We find ourselves inside a message.
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No painting or drawing, however naturalist, belongs to its subject in the way that a photograph does.
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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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Compassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural.
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The relation between what we see and what we know is never settled. Each evening we see the sun set.
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Never again shall a single story be told as though it were the only one.
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Today the discredit of words is very great.
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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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