Photography, because it stops the flow of life, is always flirting with death.
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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All weddings are similar, but every marriage is different.
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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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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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History always constitutes the relation between a present and its past. Consequently fear of the present leads to mystification of the past
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I use charcoal a lot. Partly because it has such a fantastic range but also because it is very easy to erase.
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In the modern world, in which thousands of people are dying every hour as a consequence of politics, no writing anywhere can begin to be credible unless it is informed by political awareness and principles.
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Landscapes can be deceptive. Sometimes a landscape seems to be less a setting for the life of its inhabitants than a curtain behind which their struggles, achievements and accidents takes place.
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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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That we find a crystal or a poppy beautiful means that we are less alone, that we are more deeply inserted into existence than the course of a single life would lead us to believe.
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My heart born naked was swaddled in lullabies.
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To live and die amongst foreigners may seem less absurd than to live persecuted or tortured by one’s fellow countrymen….
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Writers who have neither product utopian trash.
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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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It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open.
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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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