When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls.
JOHN BERGERNever again shall a single story be told as though it were the only one.
More John Berger Quotes
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The envied are like bureaucrats; the more impersonal they are, the greater the illusion (for themselves and for others) of their power.
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Photographs bear witness to a human choice being exercised in a given situation.
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Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.
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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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The contradiction in perspective was that it structured all images of reality to address a single spectator who, unlike God, could only be in one place at a time.
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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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Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion.
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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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The animal has secrets which, unlike the secrets of caves, mountains, seas are specifically addressed to man.
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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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Unlike any other visual image, a photograph is not a rendering, an imitation or an interpretation of its subject, but actually a trace of it.
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Fanaticism comes from any form of chosen blindness accompanying the pursuit of a single dogma.
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There’s the artist’s intimacy and truthfulness to himself, but an equal intimacy to the Other [the one drawn].
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Photography, because it stops the flow of life, is always flirting with death.
JOHN BERGER