Ours is the century of enforced travel of disappearances.
JOHN BERGERIf every event which occurred could be given a name, there would be no need for stories.
More John Berger Quotes
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No painting or drawing, however naturalist, belongs to its subject in the way that a photograph does.
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To remain innocent may also be. to remain ignorant.
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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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It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open.
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Compassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural.
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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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It was more than that. It was the period in which we suffered more total losses than in all the rest of our life put together.
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History always constitutes the relation between a present and its past. Consequently fear of the present leads to mystification of the past
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The camera relieves us of the burden of memory.
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Nothing in the nature around us is evil. This needs to be repeated since one of the human ways of talking oneself into inhuman acts is to cite the supposed cruelty of nature.
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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.
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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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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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Advertising is not merely an assembly of competing messages; it is a language itself which is always being used to make the same general proposal
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Japanese art looked closely around screens; Italian Renaissance art surveyed conquered nature through the window or door-frame of a palace.
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