We only see what we look at. To look is an act of choice.
JOHN BERGEROne can say of language that it is potentially the only human home, the only dwelling place that cannot be hostile to man.
More John Berger Quotes
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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 past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.
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The camera relieves us of the burden of memory.
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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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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 essence of songs is neither vocal nor cerebral but organic.
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Ever since the Greek tragedies, artists have, from time to time, asked themselves how they might influence ongoing political events.
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What any true painting touches is an absence – an absence of which without the painting, we might be unaware. And that would be our loss.
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She is meant to imagine herself transformed by the product into an object of envy for others, an envy which will then justify her loving herself.
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What is to happen next will take place within the four walls of the story. And this is possible because the story’s voice makes everything its own.
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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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For those who are behind the curtain, landmarks are no longer only geographic but also biographical and personal
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Photography, because it stops the flow of life, is always flirting with death.
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What do drawings mean to me? I really don’t know. The activity absorbs me. I forget everything else in a way that I don’t think happens with any other activity.
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If every event which occurred could be given a name, there would be no need for stories.
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