Words are so often used in the opposite sense, as a screen of diversion. It’s the struggle towards truthfulness which is the same whether one is writing a poem, a novel or an argument.
JOHN BERGER[O]ften art has judged the judges, pleaded revenge to the innocent and shown to the future what the past suffered, so that it has never been forgotten.
More John Berger Quotes
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Everything became exchangeable because everything became a commodity.
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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 existence of pleasure is the first mystery. The existence of pain has prompted far more philosophical speculation.
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We never look at just one thing; we are always looking at the relation between things and ourselves.
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The animal has secrets which, unlike the secrets of caves, mountains, seas are specifically addressed to man.
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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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You cant draw it for others. You can try, of course, but it doesn’t work. People obeying rules laid down my somebody else is not the same thing as respecting life. And if you want to respect life, you have to draw a line.
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Unlike any other visual image, a photograph is not a rendering, an imitation or an interpretation of its subject, but actually a trace of it.
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A drawing is essentially a private work, related only to the artist’s own needs; a ‘finished’ statue or canvas is essentially a public, presented work – related far more directly to the demands of communication.
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Writers who have neither product utopian trash.
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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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Protest and anger practically always derives from hope, and the shouting out against injustice is always in the hope of those injustices being somewhat corrected and a little more justice established.
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Never chain your dogs together with sausages. One must accustom one’s self to be bored.
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The woman’s sexual passion needs to be minimized, so that the spectator may feel that he has the monopoly on such passion
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This determines not only most relations between men and women but also the relation of women to themselves.
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