The camera relieves us of the burden of memory.
JOHN BERGERI can’t tell you what art does and how it does it, but I know that often art has judged the judges, pleaded revenge to the innocent and shown to the future what the past suffered, so that it has never been forgotten.
More John Berger Quotes
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All publicity works upon anxiety.
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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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Those who first invented and then named the constellations were storytellers.
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Post-modernism has cut off the present from all futures. The daily media add to this by cutting off the past. Which means that critical opinion is often orphaned in the present.
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This is not because they are callous or personally inhuman: it is because they live in and accept a society which is incapable of knowing what a human life is worth.
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Your lips, beloved, are like a honeycomb: honey and milk are under the tongue. And the smell of your clothes is like the smell of my home.
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Propaganda requires a permanent network of communication so that it can systematically stifle reflection with emotive or utopian slogans. Its pace is usually fast.
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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 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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There’s the artist’s intimacy and truthfulness to himself, but an equal intimacy to the Other [the one drawn].
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To remain innocent may also be. to remain ignorant.
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The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.
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Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion.
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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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Yet nowherein a zoo can a stranger encounter the look of an animal. At the most, the animal’s gaze flickers and passes on. They look sideways. They look blindly beyond.
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