Yet nowherein a zoo can a stranger encounter the look of an animal. At the most, the animal’s gaze flickers and passes on. They look sideways. They look blindly beyond.
JOHN BERGERThe heart of Paris is like nothing so much as the unending interior of a house.
More John Berger Quotes
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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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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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The opposite of love is not to hate but to separate. If love and hate have something in common it is because, in both cases, their energy is that of bringing and holding together
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To remain innocent may also be. to remain ignorant.
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Paintings record what the painter remembers. Because each one of us forgets different things, a photo more than a painting may change its meaning according to who is looking at it.
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For the artist, drawing is discovery. And that is not just a slick phrase; it is quite literally true.
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For those who are behind the curtain, landmarks are no longer only geographic but also biographical and personal
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Capitalism survives by forcing the majority, whom it exploits, to define their own interests as narrowly as possible.
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Oil painting did to appearances what capital did to social relations. It reduced everything to the equality of objects.
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Tracing an imaginary line between a cluster of stars gave them an image and an identity.
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For the Cro-Magnons, space is a metaphysical arena of continually intermittent appearances and disappearances.
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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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Protest and anger practically always derives from hope, and the shouting out against injustice is always in the hope of those injustices being somewhat corrected and a little more justice established.
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Ever since the Greek tragedies, artists have, from time to time, asked themselves how they might influence ongoing political events.
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The heart of Paris is like nothing so much as the unending interior of a house.
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