When he painted a road, the roadmakers were there in his imagination, when he painted the turned earth of a ploughed field, the gesture of the blade turning the earth was included in his own act.
JOHN BERGERMy heart born naked was swaddled in lullabies.
More John Berger Quotes
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This determines not only most relations between men and women but also the relation of women to themselves.
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Traditional Chinese art looked at the Earth from a Confucian mountain top;
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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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[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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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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Photographs bear witness to a human choice being exercised in a given situation.
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Never chain your dogs together with sausages. One must accustom one’s self to be bored.
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It was more than that. It was the period in which we suffered more total losses than in all the rest of our life put together.
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To be desired is perhaps the closest anybody in this life can reach to feeling immortal.
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Everything in life, is a question of drawing a life, John, and you have to decide for yourself where to draw it.
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Everything became exchangeable because everything became a commodity.
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Compassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural.
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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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My heart born naked was swaddled in lullabies.
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The zoo cannot but disappoint.
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