Today the discredit of words is very great.
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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The publicity image steals her love of herself as she is, and offers it back to her for the price of the product.
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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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Ethics determine choices and actions and suggest difficult priorities.
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All weddings are similar, but every marriage is different.
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Picasso drawings are like that… the Rembrandts are like that. The artist who most often did that was Van Gogh.
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It is not an art of the princes or the bourgeoisie. It is popular and vagrant. In the sky of the cinema people learn what they might have been and discover what belongs to them apart from their single lives.
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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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What any true painting touches is an absence – an absence of which without the painting, we might be unaware. And that would be our loss.
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Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.
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Never chain your dogs together with sausages. One must accustom one’s self to be bored.
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These contradictions both hide and increase the natural ambiguity of the photographic image.
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Post-modernism has cut off the present from all futures. The daily media add to this by cutting off the past. Which means that critical opinion is often orphaned in the present.
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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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Compassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural.
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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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