The essence of songs is neither vocal nor cerebral but organic.
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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Today the discredit of words is very great.
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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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Japanese art looked closely around screens; Italian Renaissance art surveyed conquered nature through the window or door-frame of a palace.
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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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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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Never again shall a single story be told as though it were the only one.
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Those who first invented and then named the constellations were storytellers.
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Without ethics man has no future. This is to say mankind without them cannot be itself.
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All publicity works upon anxiety.
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You cant draw it for others. You can try, of course, but it doesn’t work. People obeying rules laid down my somebody else is not the same thing as respecting life. And if you want to respect life, you have to draw a line.
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Fanaticism comes from any form of chosen blindness accompanying the pursuit of a single dogma.
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Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak.
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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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The strange power of art is sometimes it can show that what people have in common is more urgent than what differentiates them. It seems to me it’s something that theatre can do, but it’s rare; it’s very rare.
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The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich.
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