Never again shall a single story be told as though it were the only one.
JOHN BERGERA 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.
More John Berger Quotes
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I wanted to write about looking at the world, so it’s more about helping people, or persuading people, to see what is around us; both the marvellous and the terrible.
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My heart born naked was swaddled in lullabies.
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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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Compare the cinema with theatre. Both are dramatic arts. Theatre brings actors before a public and every night during the season they re-enact the same drama.
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A drawing is an autobiographical record of one’s discovery of an event – either seen, remembered or imagined. A ‘finished’ work is an attempt to construct an event in itself.
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For me, drawing is a lot to do with taking out, with returning to the white of the paper.
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Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity.
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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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Capitalism survives by forcing the majority, whom it exploits, to define their own interests as narrowly as possible.
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Ethics determine choices and actions and suggest difficult priorities.
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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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You can plan events, but if they go according to your plan they are not events.
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She is meant to imagine herself transformed by the product into an object of envy for others, an envy which will then justify her loving herself.
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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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