The true content of a photograph is invisible, for it derives from a play, not with form, but with time.
JOHN BERGERYou can plan events, but if they go according to your plan they are not events.
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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Never chain your dogs together with sausages. One must accustom one’s self to be bored.
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To live and die amongst foreigners may seem less absurd than to live persecuted or tortured by one’s fellow countrymen….
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Common-sense is part of the home-made ideology of those who have been deprived of fundamental learning, of those who have been kept ignorant.
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The century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to them, disappear over the horizon.
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Those who first invented and then named the constellations were storytellers.
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Ethics determine choices and actions and suggest difficult priorities.
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The zoo cannot but disappoint. The public purpose of zoos is to offer visitors the opportunity of looking at animals.
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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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You can plan events, but if they go according to your plan they are not events.
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You painted a naked woman because you enjoyed looking at her, put a mirror in her hand and you called the painting “Vanity,” thus morally condemning the woman whose nakedness you had depicted for you own pleasure.
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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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Every painted image of something is also about the absence of the real thing. All painting is about the presence of absence.
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In the modern world, in which thousands of people are dying every hour as a consequence of politics, no writing anywhere can begin to be credible unless it is informed by political awareness and principles.
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Today the discredit of words is very great.
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