Never again shall a single story be told as though it were the only one.
JOHN BERGER
Hope is a contraband passed from hand to hand and story to story.
More John Berger Quotes
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Never again shall a single story be told as though it were the only one.
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What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time.
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Common-sense is part of the home-made ideology of those who have been deprived of fundamental learning, of those who have been kept ignorant.
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Later alone it wore poems for clothes. Like a shirt I carried on my back the poetry I had read. So I lived for half a century until wordlessly we met. From my shirt on the back of the chair I learn tonight how many years of learning by heart I waited for you.
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Emigration, forced or chosen, across national frontiers or from village to metropolis, is the quintessential experience of our time.
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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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The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich.
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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 to happen next will take place within the four walls of the story. And this is possible because the story’s voice makes everything its own.
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Words are so often used in the opposite sense, as a screen of diversion. It’s the struggle towards truthfulness which is the same whether one is writing a poem, a novel or an argument.
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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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Ever since the Greek tragedies, artists have, from time to time, asked themselves how they might influence ongoing political events.
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You painted a naked woman because you enjoyed looking at her, put a mirror in her hand and you called the painting “Vanity,” thus morally condemning the woman whose nakedness you had depicted for you own pleasure.
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[O]ften art has judged the judges, pleaded revenge to the innocent and shown to the future what the past suffered, so that it has never been forgotten.
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There’s the artist’s intimacy and truthfulness to himself, but an equal intimacy to the Other [the one drawn].
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