Photography, because it stops the flow of life, is always flirting with death.
JOHN BERGERThe spectator-buyer is meant to envy herself as she will become if she buys the product.
More John Berger Quotes
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The zoo cannot but disappoint.
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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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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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A man’s presence suggests what he is capable of doing to you or for you.
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Every authentic poem contributes to the labour of poetry… to bring together what life has separated or violence has torn apart.
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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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If the public photograph contributes to a memory, it is to the memory of an unknowable and total stranger.
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To remain innocent may also be. to remain ignorant.
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When we suffer anguish we return to early childhood because that is the period in which we first learnt to suffer the experience of total loss.
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We never look at just one thing; we are always looking at the relation between things and ourselves.
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It is not usually possible in a poem or a story to make the relationship between particular and universal fully explicit. Those who try to do so end up writing parables.
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Never again shall a single story be told as though it were the only one.
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Propaganda requires a permanent network of communication so that it can systematically stifle reflection with emotive or utopian slogans. Its pace is usually fast.
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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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This determines not only most relations between men and women but also the relation of women to themselves.
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