A peasant becomes fond of his pig and is glad to salt away its pork.
JOHN BERGERDrawing is a way of coming upon the connection between things, just like metaphor in poetry reconnects what has become separated.
More John Berger Quotes
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It is not an art of the princes or the bourgeoisie. It is popular and vagrant. In the sky of the cinema people learn what they might have been and discover what belongs to them apart from their single lives.
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For the Cro-Magnons, space is a metaphysical arena of continually intermittent appearances and disappearances.
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Tracing an imaginary line between a cluster of stars gave them an image and an identity.
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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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We only see what we look at. To look is an act of choice.
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In the average European oil painting of the nude the principal protagonist is never painted. He is the spectator in front of the picture and he is presumed to be a man.
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Japanese art looked closely around screens; Italian Renaissance art surveyed conquered nature through the window or door-frame of a palace.
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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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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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When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls.
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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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We follow songs in order to be enclosed. We find ourselves inside a message.
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All photographs are there to remind us of what we forget. In this – as in other ways – they are the opposite of paintings.
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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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The existence of pleasure is the first mystery. The existence of pain has prompted far more philosophical speculation.
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