If the public photograph contributes to a memory, it is to the memory of an unknowable and total stranger.
JOHN BERGERProtest and anger practically always derives from hope, and the shouting out against injustice is always in the hope of those injustices being somewhat corrected and a little more justice established.
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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(The sight of it as an object stimulates the use of it as an object.) Nakedness reveals itself. Nudity is placed on display. To be naked is to be without disguises.
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Publicity is the life of this culture – in so far as without publicity capitalism could not survive – and at the same time publicity is its dream.
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Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.
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Painting is something that you need to do, if not every day, then certainly most days. It is almost like being a pianist: if you stop, you lose something.
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Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time has become Death triumphant over all.
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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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Capitalism survives by forcing the majority, whom it exploits, to define their own interests as narrowly as possible.
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The strange power of art is sometimes it can show that what people have in common is more urgent than what differentiates them. It seems to me it’s something that theatre can do, but it’s rare; it’s very rare.
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Never again shall a single story be told as though it were the only one.
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Tracing an imaginary line between a cluster of stars gave them an image and an identity.
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Art, when it functions like this, becomes a meeting-place of the invisible, the irreducible, the enduring, guts, and honor.
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Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.
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Everything in life, is a question of drawing a life, John, and you have to decide for yourself where to draw it.
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The spectator-buyer is meant to envy herself as she will become if she buys the product.
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