Japanese art looked closely around screens; Italian Renaissance art surveyed conquered nature through the window or door-frame of a palace.
JOHN BERGERWhat is to happen next will take place within the four walls of the story. And this is possible because the story’s voice makes everything its own.
More John Berger Quotes
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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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To remain innocent may also be. to remain ignorant.
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A man’s presence suggests what he is capable of doing to you or for you.
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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 everything that existed were continually being photographed, every photograph would become meaningless.
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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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Ethics determine choices and actions and suggest difficult priorities.
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Art, when it functions like this, becomes a meeting-place of the invisible, the irreducible, the enduring, guts, and honor.
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The century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to them, disappear over the horizon.
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Every authentic poem contributes to the labour of poetry… to bring together what life has separated or violence has torn apart.
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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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Ever since the Greek tragedies, artists have, from time to time, asked themselves how they might influence ongoing political events.
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The spectator-buyer is meant to envy herself as she will become if she buys the product.
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Drawing is a way of coming upon the connection between things, just like metaphor in poetry reconnects what has become separated.
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You are observed with interest but you do not observe with interest – if you do, you will become less enviable. In this respect the envied are like bureaucrats; the more impersonal they are, the greater the illusion (for themselves and for others) of their power.
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