When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls.
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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That we find a crystal or a poppy beautiful means that we are less alone, that we are more deeply inserted into existence than the course of a single life would lead us to believe.
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The essence of songs is neither vocal nor cerebral but organic.
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She is meant to imagine herself transformed by the product into an object of envy for others, an envy which will then justify her loving herself.
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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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As Nelson Mandela has pointed out, boycott is not a principle, it is a tactic depending upon circumstances.
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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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A drawing is an autobiographical record of one’s discovery of an event – either seen, remembered or imagined. A ‘finished’ work is an attempt to construct an event in itself.
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We can become anything. That is why injustice is impossible here. There may be the accident of birth, there is no accident of death. Nothing forces us to remain what we were.
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You painted a naked woman because you enjoyed looking at her, put a mirror in her hand and you called the painting “Vanity,” thus morally condemning the woman whose nakedness you had depicted for you own pleasure.
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A cigarette is a breathing space. It makes a parenthesis.
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Between the experience of living a normal life at this moment on the planet and the public narratives being offered to give a sense to that life, the empty space, the gap, is enormous.
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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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The human imagination… has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist practice or philosophy.
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We never look at just one thing; we are always looking at the relation between things and ourselves.
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Writers who have neither product utopian trash.
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