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.
JOHN BERGERTo remain innocent may also be. to remain ignorant.
More John Berger Quotes
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Never chain your dogs together with sausages. One must accustom one’s self to be bored.
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If the public photograph contributes to a memory, it is to the memory of an unknowable and total stranger.
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For the artist, drawing is discovery. And that is not just a slick phrase; it is quite literally true.
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Later alone it wore poems for clothes. Like a shirt I carried on my back the poetry I had read. So I lived for half a century until wordlessly we met. From my shirt on the back of the chair I learn tonight how many years of learning by heart I waited for you.
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Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.
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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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Compassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural.
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No painting or drawing, however naturalist, belongs to its subject in the way that a photograph does.
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The zoo cannot but disappoint.
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To live and die amongst foreigners may seem less absurd than to live persecuted or tortured by one’s fellow countrymen….
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The century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to them, disappear over the horizon.
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All creation is in the art of seeing.
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Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak.
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Pleasure and pain need to be considered together; they are inseparable. Yet the space filled by each is perhaps different. Pleasure, defined as a sense of gratification, is essential for nature
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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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