What is significant, and is so difficult for the urban stranger to understand, is that the two statements are connected by an and not by a but.
JOHN BERGERIt can happen that a book, unlike its authors, grows younger as the years pass.
More John Berger Quotes
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It is seeing which establishes our place in the surrounding world; we explain that world with words, but words can never undo the fact that we are surrounded by it
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All weddings are similar, but every marriage is different.
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Every painted image of something is also about the absence of the real thing. All painting is about the presence of absence.
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To be naked is to be oneself.
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It is comparatively easy to achieve a certain unity in a picture by allowing one colour to dominate, or by muting all the colours.
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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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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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Nothing in the nature around us is evil. This needs to be repeated since one of the human ways of talking oneself into inhuman acts is to cite the supposed cruelty of nature.
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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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We follow songs in order to be enclosed. We find ourselves inside a message.
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Drawing is a way of coming upon the connection between things, just like metaphor in poetry reconnects what has become separated.
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What distinguished man from animals was the human capacity for symbolic thought, the capacity which was inseparable from the development of language in which words were not mere signals, but signifiers of something other than themselves.
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Yet the first symbols were animals. What distinguished men from animals was born of their relationship with them.
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Capitalism survives by forcing the majority, whom it exploits, to define their own interests as narrowly as possible.
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Traditional Chinese art looked at the Earth from a Confucian mountain top;
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