It is not an art of the princes or the bourgeoisie. It is popular and vagrant. In the sky of the cinema people learn what they might have been and discover what belongs to them apart from their single lives.
JOHN BERGERWe follow songs in order to be enclosed. We find ourselves inside a message.
More John Berger Quotes
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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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For the Cro-Magnons, space is a metaphysical arena of continually intermittent appearances and disappearances.
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Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.
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The existence of pleasure is the first mystery. The existence of pain has prompted far more philosophical speculation.
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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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When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls.
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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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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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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.
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These contradictions both hide and increase the natural ambiguity of the photographic image.
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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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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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We never look at just one thing; we are always looking at the relation between things and ourselves.
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Ours is the century of enforced travel of disappearances.
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Writers who have neither product utopian trash.
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