To be desired is perhaps the closest anybody in this life can reach to feeling immortal.
JOHN BERGERThe essence of songs is neither vocal nor cerebral but organic.
More John Berger Quotes
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Traditional Chinese art looked at the Earth from a Confucian mountain top;
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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 publicity works upon anxiety.
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These contradictions both hide and increase the natural ambiguity of the photographic image.
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This is not because they are callous or personally inhuman: it is because they live in and accept a society which is incapable of knowing what a human life is worth.
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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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Matisse did neither. He clashed his colours together like cymbals and the effect was like a lullaby.
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The zoo cannot but disappoint. The public purpose of zoos is to offer visitors the opportunity of looking at animals.
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Do you know the legend about cicadas? They say they are the souls of poets who cannot keep quiet because, when they were alive, they never wrote the poems they wanted to.
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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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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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One of the fundamental reasons why so many doctors become cynical and disillusioned is precisely because, when the abstract idealism has worn thin, they are uncertain about the value of the actual lives of the patients they are treating.
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A photograph is a result of the photographer’s decision that it is worth recording that this particular event or this particular object has been seen. If everything that existed were continually being photographed, every photograph would become meaningless.
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Photographs bear witness to a human choice being exercised in a given situation.
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The zoo cannot but disappoint.
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