We follow songs in order to be enclosed. We find ourselves inside a message.
JOHN BERGERWhen we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls.
More John Berger Quotes
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Hope is a contraband passed from hand to hand and story to story.
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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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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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The existence of pleasure is the first mystery. The existence of pain has prompted far more philosophical speculation.
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Fanaticism comes from any form of chosen blindness accompanying the pursuit of a single dogma.
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The contradiction in perspective was that it structured all images of reality to address a single spectator who, unlike God, could only be in one place at a time.
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A photograph is a meeting place where the interests of the photographer, the photographed, the viewer and those who are using the photograph are often contradictory.
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A peasant becomes fond of his pig and is glad to salt away its pork.
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These contradictions both hide and increase the natural ambiguity of the photographic image.
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Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time has become Death triumphant over all.
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You can plan events, but if they go according to your plan they are not events.
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The surveyor of woman in herself is male: the surveyed female. Thus she turns herself into an object – and most particularly an object of vision: a sight.
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What do drawings mean to me? I really don’t know. The activity absorbs me. I forget everything else in a way that I don’t think happens with any other activity.
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Those who first invented and then named the constellations were storytellers.
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But toemigrate is always to dismantle the centre of the world, and so to move into a lost, disoriented one of fragments.
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