It can happen that a book, unlike its authors, grows younger as the years pass.
JOHN BERGERA 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.
More John Berger Quotes
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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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Never again shall a single story be told as though it were the only one.
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To be desired is perhaps the closest anybody in this life can reach to feeling immortal.
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A peasant becomes fond of his pig and is glad to salt away its pork.
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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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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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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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Advertising is not merely an assembly of competing messages; it is a language itself which is always being used to make the same general proposal
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What do drawings mean to me? I really don’t know. The activity absorbs me. I forget everything else in a way that I don’t think happens with any other activity.
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Paintings record what the painter remembers. Because each one of us forgets different things, a photo more than a painting may change its meaning according to who is looking at it.
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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.
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Fanaticism comes from any form of chosen blindness accompanying the pursuit of a single dogma.
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Ours is the century of enforced travel of disappearances.
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When we suffer anguish we return to early childhood because that is the period in which we first learnt to suffer the experience of total loss.
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History always constitutes the relation between a present and its past. Consequently fear of the present leads to mystification of the past
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