If everything that existed were continually being photographed, every photograph would become meaningless.
JOHN BERGERWhen 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.
More John Berger Quotes
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We who draw do so not only to make something observed visible to others, but also to accompany something invisible to its incalculable destination
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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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By contrast, a woman’s presence… defines what can and cannot be done to her.
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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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All creation is in the art of seeing.
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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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If every event which occurred could be given a name, there would be no need for stories.
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The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.
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Those who first invented and then named the constellations were storytellers.
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What is saved in the cinema when it achieves art is a spontaneous continuity with all mankind.
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Hope is a contraband passed from hand to hand and story to story.
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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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The woman’s sexual passion needs to be minimized, so that the spectator may feel that he has the monopoly on such passion
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All publicity works upon anxiety.
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We never look at just one thing; we are always looking at the relation between things and ourselves.
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