A drawing is an autobiographical record of one’s discovery of an event – either seen, remembered or imagined. A ‘finished’ work is an attempt to construct an event in itself.
JOHN BERGERCapitalism survives by forcing the majority, whom it exploits, to define their own interests as narrowly as possible.
More John Berger Quotes
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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 century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to them, disappear over the horizon.
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Everything became exchangeable because everything became a commodity.
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It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open.
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The heart of Paris is like nothing so much as the unending interior of a house.
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What is significant, and is so difficult for the urban stranger to understand, is that the two statements are connected by an and not by a but.
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For the Cro-Magnons, space is a metaphysical arena of continually intermittent appearances and disappearances.
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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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Compassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural.
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When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls.
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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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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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This was once achieved by extensive deprivation. Today in the developed countries it is being achieved by imposing a false standard of what is and what is not desirable.
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Propaganda requires a permanent network of communication so that it can systematically stifle reflection with emotive or utopian slogans. Its pace is usually fast.
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The camera relieves us of the burden of memory.
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