When he painted a road, the roadmakers were there in his imagination, when he painted the turned earth of a ploughed field, the gesture of the blade turning the earth was included in his own act.
JOHN BERGERThese contradictions both hide and increase the natural ambiguity of the photographic image.
More John Berger Quotes
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Never again shall a single story be told as though it were the only one.
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Ethics determine choices and actions and suggest difficult priorities.
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Nothing fortuitous happens in a child’s world. There are no accidents. Everything is connected with everything else and everything can be explained by everything else. . . . For a young child everything that happens is a necessity.
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Post-modernism has cut off the present from all futures. The daily media add to this by cutting off the past. Which means that critical opinion is often orphaned in the present.
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If every event which occurred could be given a name, there would be no need for stories.
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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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To be desired is perhaps the closest anybody in this life can reach to feeling immortal.
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What is saved in the cinema when it achieves art is a spontaneous continuity with all mankind.
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The essence of songs is neither vocal nor cerebral but organic.
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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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Nothing in the nature around us is evil. This needs to be repeated since one of the human ways of talking oneself into inhuman acts is to cite the supposed cruelty of nature.
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All creation is in the art of seeing.
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For those who are behind the curtain, landmarks are no longer only geographic but also biographical and personal
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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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Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity.
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