We know that the earth is turning away from it. Yet the knowledge, the explanation, never quite fits the sight.
JOHN BERGERWhat is saved in the cinema when it achieves art is a spontaneous continuity with all mankind.
More John Berger Quotes
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Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.
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The stars threaded on that line were like events threaded on a narrative. Imagining the constellations did not of course change the stars, nor did it change the black emptiness that surrounds them. What it changed was the way people read the night sky.
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The spectator-buyer is meant to envy herself as she will become if she buys the product.
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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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You can plan events, but if they go according to your plan they are not events.
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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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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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This determines not only most relations between men and women but also the relation of women to themselves.
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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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It is seeing which establishes our place in the surrounding world; we explain that world with words, but words can never undo the fact that we are surrounded by it
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Everything became exchangeable because everything became a commodity.
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What is significant, and is so difficult for the urban stranger to understand, is that the two statements are connected by an and not by a but.
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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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For the Cro-Magnons, space is a metaphysical arena of continually intermittent appearances and disappearances.
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Drawing is a way of coming upon the connection between things, just like metaphor in poetry reconnects what has become separated.
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