We can become anything. That is why injustice is impossible here. There may be the accident of birth, there is no accident of death. Nothing forces us to remain what we were.
JOHN BERGERFor me, drawing is a lot to do with taking out, with returning to the white of the paper.
More John Berger Quotes
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For those who are behind the curtain, landmarks are no longer only geographic but also biographical and personal
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A photograph is a meeting place where the interests of the photographer, the photographed, the viewer and those who are using the photograph are often contradictory.
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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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If every event which occurred could be given a name, there would be no need for stories.
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All publicity works upon anxiety.
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The true content of a photograph is invisible, for it derives from a play, not with form, but with time.
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Emigration, forced or chosen, across national frontiers or from village to metropolis, is the quintessential experience of our time.
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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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In the modern world, in which thousands of people are dying every hour as a consequence of politics, no writing anywhere can begin to be credible unless it is informed by political awareness and principles.
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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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We who draw do so not only to make something observed visible to others, but also to accompany something invisible to its incalculable destination
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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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The zoo cannot but disappoint.
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It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open.
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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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