Never again shall a single story be told as though it were the only one.
JOHN BERGERFanaticism comes from any form of chosen blindness accompanying the pursuit of a single dogma.
More John Berger Quotes
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Without ethics man has no future. This is to say mankind without them cannot be itself.
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Every city has a sex and an age which have nothing to do with demography. Rome is feminine. So is Odessa. London is a teenager, an urchin, and, in this, hasn’t changed since the time of Dickens. Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.
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Everything became exchangeable because everything became a commodity.
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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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For the artist, drawing is discovery. And that is not just a slick phrase; it is quite literally true.
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In the average European oil painting of the nude the principal protagonist is never painted. He is the spectator in front of the picture and he is presumed to be a man.
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Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.
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We only see what we look at. To look is an act of choice.
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Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak.
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Yet the first symbols were animals. What distinguished men from animals was born of their relationship with them.
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Common-sense is part of the home-made ideology of those who have been deprived of fundamental learning, of those who have been kept ignorant.
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What any true painting touches is an absence – an absence of which without the painting, we might be unaware. And that would be our loss.
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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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The camera relieves us of the burden of memory. It surveys us like God, and it surveys for us. Yet no other god has been so cynical, for the camera records in order to forget.
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We follow songs in order to be enclosed. We find ourselves inside a message.
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