The camera relieves us of the burden of memory.
JOHN BERGERThe 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.
More John Berger Quotes
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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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It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open.
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These contradictions both hide and increase the natural ambiguity of the photographic image.
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Yet nowherein a zoo can a stranger encounter the look of an animal. At the most, the animal’s gaze flickers and passes on. They look sideways. They look blindly beyond.
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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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Deep in the nature of theatre is a sense of ritual. The cinema, by contrast, transports its audience individually, singly, out of the theatre towards the unknown.
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No painting or drawing, however naturalist, belongs to its subject in the way that a photograph does.
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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 true content of a photograph is invisible, for it derives from a play, not with form, but with time.
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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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Every authentic poem contributes to the labour of poetry… to bring together what life has separated or violence has torn apart.
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Nothing fortuitous happens in a child’s world. There are no accidents. Everything is connected with everything else and everything can be explained by everything else. . . . For a young child everything that happens is a necessity.
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The human imagination… has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist practice or philosophy.
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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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Ours is the century of enforced travel of disappearances.
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