All weddings are similar, but every marriage is different.
JOHN BERGERTracing an imaginary line between a cluster of stars gave them an image and an identity.
More John Berger Quotes
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Poetry can repair no loss, but it defies the space which separates. And it does this by its continual labor of reassembling what has been scattered.
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Every authentic poem contributes to the labor of poetry… to bring together what life has separated or violence has torn apart…
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The essence of songs is neither vocal nor cerebral but organic.
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One can say of language that it is potentially the only human home, the only dwelling place that cannot be hostile to man.
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Nothing fortuitous happens in a child’s world. There are no accidents. Everything is connected with everything else and everything can be explained by everything else. . . . For a young child everything that happens is a necessity.
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Every painted image of something is also about the absence of the real thing. All painting is about the presence of absence.
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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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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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It is comparatively easy to achieve a certain unity in a picture by allowing one colour to dominate, or by muting all the colours.
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Emigration, forced or chosen, across national frontiers or from village to metropolis, is the quintessential experience of our time.
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I wanted to write about looking at the world, so it’s more about helping people, or persuading people, to see what is around us; both the marvellous and the terrible.
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Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.
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The happiness of being envied is glamour. Being envied is a solitary form of reassurance. It depends precisely upon not sharing your experience with those who envy you.
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We who draw do so not only to make something observed visible to others, but also to accompany something invisible to its incalculable destination
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All creation is in the art of seeing.
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