The opposite of love is not to hate but to separate. If love and hate have something in common it is because, in both cases, their energy is that of bringing and holding together
JOHN BERGERWe never look at just one thing; we are always looking at the relation between things and ourselves.
More John Berger Quotes
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My heart born naked was swaddled in lullabies.
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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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This determines not only most relations between men and women but also the relation of women to themselves.
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All weddings are similar, but every marriage is different.
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Capitalism survives by forcing the majority, whom it exploits, to define their own interests as narrowly as possible.
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I wanted to write about looking at the world, so it’s more about helping people, or persuading people, to see what is around us; both the marvellous and the terrible.
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Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time has become Death triumphant over all.
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The strange power of art is sometimes it can show that what people have in common is more urgent than what differentiates them. It seems to me it’s something that theatre can do, but it’s rare; it’s very rare.
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A cigarette is a breathing space. It makes a parenthesis.
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Everything in life, is a question of drawing a life, John, and you have to decide for yourself where to draw it.
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We who draw do so not only to make something observed visible to others, but also to accompany something invisible to its incalculable destination
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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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The stars threaded on that line were like events threaded on a narrative. Imagining the constellations did not of course change the stars, nor did it change the black emptiness that surrounds them. What it changed was the way people read the night sky.
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A photograph is a meeting place where the interests of the photographer, the photographed, the viewer and those who are using the photograph are often contradictory.
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To be naked is to be oneself.
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