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 BERGERNever chain your dogs together with sausages. One must accustom one’s self to be bored.
More John Berger Quotes
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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 power of the glamorous resides in their supposed happiness: the power of the bureaucrat in his supposed authority.
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To remain innocent may also be. to remain ignorant.
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Traditional Chinese art looked at the Earth from a Confucian mountain top;
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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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Ethics determine choices and actions and suggest difficult priorities.
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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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We follow songs in order to be enclosed. We find ourselves inside a message.
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For the Cro-Magnons, space is a metaphysical arena of continually intermittent appearances and disappearances.
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All weddings are similar, but every marriage is different.
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She is meant to imagine herself transformed by the product into an object of envy for others, an envy which will then justify her loving herself.
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The past is the one thing we are not prisoners of. We can do with the past exactly what we wish. What we can’t do is to change its consequences.
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My heart born naked was swaddled in lullabies.
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It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open.
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A peasant becomes fond of his pig and is glad to salt away its pork.
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