One can say of language that it is potentially the only human home, the only dwelling place that cannot be hostile to man.
JOHN BERGERThe camera relieves us of the burden of memory.
More John Berger Quotes
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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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[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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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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A man’s presence suggests what he is capable of doing to you or for you.
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It is seeing which establishes our place in the surrounding world; we explain that world with words, but words can never undo the fact that we are surrounded by it
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Tracing an imaginary line between a cluster of stars gave them an image and an identity.
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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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To remain innocent may also be. to remain ignorant.
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The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.
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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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To be desired is perhaps the closest anybody in this life can reach to feeling immortal.
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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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The century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to them, disappear over the horizon.
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Painting is something that you need to do, if not every day, then certainly most days. It is almost like being a pianist: if you stop, you lose something.
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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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