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.
JOHN BERGERFor those who are behind the curtain, landmarks are no longer only geographic but also biographical and personal
More John Berger Quotes
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The time of a cigarette is a parenthesis, and if it is shared, you are both in that parenthesis. Its like a proscenium arch for a dialogue.
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When we suffer anguish we return to early childhood because that is the period in which we first learnt to suffer the experience of total loss.
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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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If the public photograph contributes to a memory, it is to the memory of an unknowable and total stranger.
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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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Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.
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To be desired is perhaps the closest anybody in this life can reach to feeling immortal.
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A cigarette is a breathing space. It makes a parenthesis.
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Oil painting did to appearances what capital did to social relations. It reduced everything to the equality of objects.
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The camera relieves us of the burden of memory.
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The past is the one thing we are not prisoners of. We can do with the past exactly what we wish. What we can’t do is to change its consequences.
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What any true painting touches is an absence – an absence of which without the painting, we might be unaware. And that would be our loss.
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All creation is in the art of seeing.
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Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.
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For the artist, drawing is discovery. And that is not just a slick phrase; it is quite literally true.
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