Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time has become Death triumphant over all.
JOHN BERGERCompassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural.
More John Berger Quotes
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Photography, because it stops the flow of life, is always flirting with death.
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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 is comparatively easy to achieve a certain unity in a picture by allowing one colour to dominate, or by muting all the colours.
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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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It is not usually possible in a poem or a story to make the relationship between particular and universal fully explicit. Those who try to do so end up writing parables.
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To remain innocent may also be. to remain ignorant.
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Fanaticism comes from any form of chosen blindness accompanying the pursuit of a single dogma.
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One can say of language that it is potentially the only human home, the only dwelling place that cannot be hostile to man.
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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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At times failure is very necessary for the artist. It reminds him that failure is not the ultimate disaster. And this reminder liberates him from the mean fussing of perfectionism.
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Today the discredit of words is very great.
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Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.
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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.
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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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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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