The relation between what we see and what we know is never settled. Each evening we see the sun set.
JOHN BERGERCapitalism survives by forcing the majority, whom it exploits, to define their own interests as narrowly as possible.
More John Berger Quotes
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I use charcoal a lot. Partly because it has such a fantastic range but also because it is very easy to erase.
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These contradictions both hide and increase the natural ambiguity of the photographic image.
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Without ethics man has no future. This is to say mankind without them cannot be itself.
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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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We follow songs in order to be enclosed. We find ourselves inside a message.
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Words are so often used in the opposite sense, as a screen of diversion. It’s the struggle towards truthfulness which is the same whether one is writing a poem, a novel or an argument.
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Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak.
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[O]ften art has judged the judges, pleaded revenge to the innocent and shown to the future what the past suffered, so that it has never been forgotten.
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Advertising is not merely an assembly of competing messages; it is a language itself which is always being used to make the same general proposal
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The zoo cannot but disappoint.
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If everything that existed were continually being photographed, every photograph would become meaningless.
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All creation is in the art of seeing.
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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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You can plan events, but if they go according to your plan they are not events.
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What distinguished man from animals was the human capacity for symbolic thought, the capacity which was inseparable from the development of language in which words were not mere signals, but signifiers of something other than themselves.
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