To remain innocent may also be. to remain ignorant.
JOHN BERGERA tactic which allows people, as distinct from their elected but often craven governments, to apply a certain pressure on those wielding power in what they, the boycotters, consider to be an unjust or immoral way.
More John Berger Quotes
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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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Traditional Chinese art looked at the Earth from a Confucian mountain top;
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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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A photograph is a result of the photographer’s decision that it is worth recording that this particular event or this particular object has been seen. If everything that existed were continually being photographed, every photograph would become meaningless.
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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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Every authentic poem contributes to the labor of poetry… to bring together what life has separated or violence has torn apart…
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The unsung, impersonal world remains outside, on the other surface of a placenta. All songs, even when their content or rendering is strongly masculine, operate maternally.
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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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The contradiction in perspective was that it structured all images of reality to address a single spectator who, unlike God, could only be in one place at a time.
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The publicity image steals her love of herself as she is, and offers it back to her for the price of the product.
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The century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to them, disappear over the horizon.
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Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity.
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Picasso drawings are like that… the Rembrandts are like that. The artist who most often did that was Van Gogh.
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All publicity works upon anxiety.
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Writers who have neither product utopian trash.
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