It can happen that a book, unlike its authors, grows younger as the years pass.
JOHN BERGERWe know that the earth is turning away from it. Yet the knowledge, the explanation, never quite fits the sight.
More John Berger Quotes
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All publicity works upon anxiety.
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That we find a crystal or a poppy beautiful means that we are less alone, that we are more deeply inserted into existence than the course of a single life would lead us to believe.
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Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak.
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Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time has become Death triumphant over all.
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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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One of the fundamental reasons why so many doctors become cynical and disillusioned is precisely because, when the abstract idealism has worn thin, they are uncertain about the value of the actual lives of the patients they are treating.
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But toemigrate is always to dismantle the centre of the world, and so to move into a lost, disoriented one of fragments.
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Compare the cinema with theatre. Both are dramatic arts. Theatre brings actors before a public and every night during the season they re-enact the same drama.
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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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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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What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time.
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It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open.
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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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Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.
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When he painted a road, the roadmakers were there in his imagination, when he painted the turned earth of a ploughed field, the gesture of the blade turning the earth was included in his own act.
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