Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak.
JOHN BERGER
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.
More John Berger Quotes
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Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak.
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Later alone it wore poems for clothes. Like a shirt I carried on my back the poetry I had read. So I lived for half a century until wordlessly we met. From my shirt on the back of the chair I learn tonight how many years of learning by heart I waited for you.
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The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich.
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Matisse did neither. He clashed his colours together like cymbals and the effect was like a lullaby.
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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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Picasso drawings are like that… the Rembrandts are like that. The artist who most often did that was Van Gogh.
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The time of a cigarette is a parenthesis, and if it is shared, you are both in that parenthesis. Its like a proscenium arch for a dialogue.
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As Nelson Mandela has pointed out, boycott is not a principle, it is a tactic depending upon circumstances.
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A tactic which allows people, as distinct from their elected but often craven governments, to apply a certain pressure on those wielding power in what they, the boycotters, consider to be an unjust or immoral way.
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You can plan events, but if they go according to your plan they are not events.
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If every event which occurred could be given a name, there would be no need for stories.
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The opposite of love is not to hate but to separate. If love and hate have something in common it is because, in both cases, their energy is that of bringing and holding together
JOHN BERGER