All publicity works upon anxiety.
JOHN BERGEROurs is the century of enforced travel of disappearances.
More John Berger Quotes
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The century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to them, disappear over the horizon.
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For the Cro-Magnons, space is a metaphysical arena of continually intermittent appearances and disappearances.
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The relation between what we see and what we know is never settled. Each evening we see the sun set.
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You cant draw it for others. You can try, of course, but it doesn’t work. People obeying rules laid down my somebody else is not the same thing as respecting life. And if you want to respect life, you have to draw a line.
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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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Ours is the century of enforced travel of disappearances.
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Deep in the nature of theatre is a sense of ritual. The cinema, by contrast, transports its audience individually, singly, out of the theatre towards the unknown.
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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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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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Photography, because it stops the flow of life, is always flirting with death.
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Today the discredit of words is very great.
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Later alone it wore poems for clothes. Like a shirt I carried on my back the poetry I had read. So I lived for half a century until wordlessly we met. From my shirt on the back of the chair I learn tonight how many years of learning by heart I waited for you.
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Nothing in the nature around us is evil. This needs to be repeated since one of the human ways of talking oneself into inhuman acts is to cite the supposed cruelty of nature.
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Traditional Chinese art looked at the Earth from a Confucian mountain top;
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The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich.
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