The camera relieves us of the burden of memory.
JOHN BERGERThe essence of songs is neither vocal nor cerebral but organic.
More John Berger Quotes
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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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The power of the glamorous resides in their supposed happiness: the power of the bureaucrat in his supposed authority.
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The time of a cigarette is a parenthesis, and if it is shared, you are both in that parenthesis. Its like a proscenium arch for a dialogue.
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Hope is a contraband passed from hand to hand and story to story.
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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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A cigarette is a breathing space. It makes a parenthesis.
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It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open.
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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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The human imagination… has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist practice or philosophy.
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Writers who have neither product utopian trash.
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The impulse to paint comes neither from observation nor from the soul (which is probably blind) but from an encounter: the encounter between painter and model: even if the model is a mountain or a shelf of empty medicine bottles.
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Hair is associated with sexual power. With passion.
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Whenever the intensity of looking reaches a certain degree, one becomes aware of an equally intense energy coming towards one through the appearance of whatever it is one is scrutinizing.
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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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Fanaticism comes from any form of chosen blindness accompanying the pursuit of a single dogma.
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