The relation between what we see and what we know is never settled. Each evening we see the sun set.
JOHN BERGERHope is a contraband passed from hand to hand and story to story.
More John Berger Quotes
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If the public photograph contributes to a memory, it is to the memory of an unknowable and total stranger.
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Everything became exchangeable because everything became a commodity.
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You can plan events, but if they go according to your plan they are not events.
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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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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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For those who are behind the curtain, landmarks are no longer only geographic but also biographical and personal
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Art, when it functions like this, becomes a meeting-place of the invisible, the irreducible, the enduring, guts, and honor.
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This was once achieved by extensive deprivation. Today in the developed countries it is being achieved by imposing a false standard of what is and what is not desirable.
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Every painted image of something is also about the absence of the real thing. All painting is about the presence of absence.
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But toemigrate is always to dismantle the centre of the world, and so to move into a lost, disoriented one of fragments.
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We know that the earth is turning away from it. Yet the knowledge, the explanation, never quite fits the sight.
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All creation is in the art of seeing.
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Tracing an imaginary line between a cluster of stars gave them an image and an identity.
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The extreme proposition on which Giacometti based all his mature work was that no reality… could ever be shared. This is why he believed it impossible for a work to be finished. This is why the content of any work is not the nature of the figure or head portrayed but the incomplete history of him staring at it.
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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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