Every authentic poem contributes to the labour of poetry… to bring together what life has separated or violence has torn apart.
JOHN BERGERA photograph is a result of the photographer’s decision that it is worth recording that this particular event or this particular object has been seen. If everything that existed were continually being photographed, every photograph would become meaningless.
More John Berger Quotes
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Publicity is the life of this culture – in so far as without publicity capitalism could not survive – and at the same time publicity is its dream.
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You can plan events, but if they go according to your plan they are not events.
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Buildings become furniture, courtyards become carpets and arrases, the streets are like galleries, the boulevards conservatories. It is a house, one or two centuries old, rich, bourgeois, distinguished. The only way of going out, or shutting the door behind you, is to leave the centre.
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Advertising is not merely an assembly of competing messages; it is a language itself which is always being used to make the same general proposal
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In the modern world, in which thousands of people are dying every hour as a consequence of politics, no writing anywhere can begin to be credible unless it is informed by political awareness and principles.
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Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.
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This determines not only most relations between men and women but also the relation of women to themselves.
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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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Matisse did neither. He clashed his colours together like cymbals and the effect was like a lullaby.
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Never chain your dogs together with sausages. One must accustom one’s self to be bored.
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Hope is a contraband passed from hand to hand and story to story.
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The power of the glamorous resides in their supposed happiness: the power of the bureaucrat in his supposed authority.
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Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.
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If everything that existed were continually being photographed, every photograph would become meaningless.
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Deep in the nature of theatre is a sense of ritual. The cinema, by contrast, transports its audience individually, singly, out of the theatre towards the unknown.
JOHN BERGER







