If the public photograph contributes to a memory, it is to the memory of an unknowable and total stranger.
JOHN BERGERIt is comparatively easy to achieve a certain unity in a picture by allowing one colour to dominate, or by muting all the colours.
More John Berger Quotes
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Writers who have neither product utopian trash.
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Photographs bear witness to a human choice being exercised in a given situation.
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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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One of the fundamental reasons why so many doctors become cynical and disillusioned is precisely because, when the abstract idealism has worn thin, they are uncertain about the value of the actual lives of the patients they are treating.
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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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These contradictions both hide and increase the natural ambiguity of the photographic image.
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By contrast, a woman’s presence… defines what can and cannot be done to her.
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Hope is a contraband passed from hand to hand and story to story.
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Protest 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.
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The essence of songs is neither vocal nor cerebral but organic.
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The animal has secrets which, unlike the secrets of caves, mountains, seas are specifically addressed to man.
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What is saved in the cinema when it achieves art is a spontaneous continuity with all mankind.
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It is comparatively easy to achieve a certain unity in a picture by allowing one colour to dominate, or by muting all the colours.
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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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It is not usually possible in a poem or a story to make the relationship between particular and universal fully explicit. Those who try to do so end up writing parables.
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