This is not because they are callous or personally inhuman: it is because they live in and accept a society which is incapable of knowing what a human life is worth.
JOHN BERGERWhen we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls.
More John Berger Quotes
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For me, drawing is a lot to do with taking out, with returning to the white of the paper.
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All creation is in the art of seeing.
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It was more than that. It was the period in which we suffered more total losses than in all the rest of our life put together.
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Whenever the intensity of looking reaches a certain degree, one becomes aware of an equally intense energy coming towards one through the appearance of whatever it is one is scrutinizing.
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Every city has a sex and an age which have nothing to do with demography. Rome is feminine. So is Odessa. London is a teenager, an urchin, and, in this, hasn’t changed since the time of Dickens. Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.
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All weddings are similar, but every marriage is different.
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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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We who draw do so not only to make something observed visible to others, but also to accompany something invisible to its incalculable destination
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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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Every authentic poem contributes to the labor of poetry… to bring together what life has separated or violence has torn apart…
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Oil painting did to appearances what capital did to social relations. It reduced everything to the equality of objects.
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The happiness of being envied is glamour. Being envied is a solitary form of reassurance. It depends precisely upon not sharing your experience with those who envy you.
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The spectator-buyer is meant to envy herself as she will become if she buys the product.
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Everything in life, is a question of drawing a life, John, and you have to decide for yourself where to draw it.
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Hope is a contraband passed from hand to hand and story to story.
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