Everything in life, is a question of drawing a life, John, and you have to decide for yourself where to draw it.
JOHN BERGERTo remain innocent may also be. to remain ignorant.
More John Berger Quotes
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By contrast, a woman’s presence… defines what can and cannot be done to her.
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These contradictions both hide and increase the natural ambiguity of the photographic image.
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The animal has secrets which, unlike the secrets of caves, mountains, seas are specifically addressed to man.
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The essence of songs is neither vocal nor cerebral but organic.
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This was once achieved by extensive deprivation. Today in the developed countries it is being achieved by imposing a false standard of what is and what is not desirable.
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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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It is comparatively easy to achieve a certain unity in a picture by allowing one colour to dominate, or by muting all the colours.
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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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Paintings record what the painter remembers. Because each one of us forgets different things, a photo more than a painting may change its meaning according to who is looking at it.
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We know that the earth is turning away from it. Yet the knowledge, the explanation, never quite fits the sight.
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Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity.
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Emigration, forced or chosen, across national frontiers or from village to metropolis, is the quintessential experience of our time.
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Fanaticism comes from any form of chosen blindness accompanying the pursuit of a single dogma.
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One can say of language that it is potentially the only human home, the only dwelling place that cannot be hostile to man.
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All photographs are there to remind us of what we forget. In this – as in other ways – they are the opposite of paintings.
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