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.
JOHN BERGERAdvertising is not merely an assembly of competing messages; it is a language itself which is always being used to make the same general proposal
More John Berger Quotes
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You cant draw it for others. You can try, of course, but it doesn’t work. People obeying rules laid down my somebody else is not the same thing as respecting life. And if you want to respect life, you have to draw a line.
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The camera relieves us of the burden of memory.
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Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.
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Nakedness reveals itself. Nudity is placed on display. The nude is condemned to never being naked. Nudity is a form of dress.
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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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To be naked is to be oneself. To be nude is to be seen naked by others and yet not recognized for oneself. A naked body has to be seen as an object in order to become a nude.
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Every authentic poem contributes to the labor of poetry… to bring together what life has separated or violence has torn apart…
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The human imagination… has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist practice or philosophy.
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It can happen that a book, unlike its authors, grows younger as the years pass.
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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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What distinguished man from animals was the human capacity for symbolic thought, the capacity which was inseparable from the development of language in which words were not mere signals, but signifiers of something other than themselves.
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Whenever he looked he saw the labour of existence; and this labour, recognised as such, was what constituted reality for him. (On Vincent Van Gogh)
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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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For the Cro-Magnons, space is a metaphysical arena of continually intermittent appearances and disappearances.
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The happiness of being envied is glamour. Being envied is a solitary form of reassurance. It depends precisely upon not sharing your experience with those who envy you.
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