Compassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural.
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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The happiness of being envied is glamour. Being envied is a solitary form of reassurance. It depends precisely upon not sharing your experience with those who envy you.
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It can happen that a book, unlike its authors, grows younger as the years pass.
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We can become anything. That is why injustice is impossible here. There may be the accident of birth, there is no accident of death. Nothing forces us to remain what we were.
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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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As Nelson Mandela has pointed out, boycott is not a principle, it is a tactic depending upon circumstances.
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It is comparatively easy to achieve a certain unity in a picture by allowing one colour to dominate, or by muting all the colours.
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You can plan events, but if they go according to your plan they are not events.
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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.
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Painting is something that you need to do, if not every day, then certainly most days. It is almost like being a pianist: if you stop, you lose something.
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Every painted image of something is also about the absence of the real thing. All painting is about the presence of absence.
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To be naked is to be oneself. To be nude is to be seen naked by others and yet not recognised for oneself.
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To be naked is to be oneself. To be nude is to be seen naked by others and yet not recognized for oneself. A naked body has to be seen as an object in order to become a nude.
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All photographs are there to remind us of what we forget. In this – as in other ways – they are the opposite of paintings.
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What do drawings mean to me? I really don’t know. The activity absorbs me. I forget everything else in a way that I don’t think happens with any other activity.
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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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