It can happen that a book, unlike its authors, grows younger as the years pass.
JOHN BERGER(The sight of it as an object stimulates the use of it as an object.) Nakedness reveals itself. Nudity is placed on display. To be naked is to be without disguises.
More John Berger Quotes
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It is not an art of the princes or the bourgeoisie. It is popular and vagrant. In the sky of the cinema people learn what they might have been and discover what belongs to them apart from their single lives.
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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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A cigarette is a breathing space. It makes a parenthesis.
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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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Emigration, forced or chosen, across national frontiers or from village to metropolis, is the quintessential experience of our time.
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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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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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The zoo cannot but disappoint.
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Photography, because it stops the flow of life, is always flirting with death.
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It is seeing which establishes our place in the surrounding world; we explain that world with words, but words can never undo the fact that we are surrounded by it
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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 poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich.
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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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This is not because they are callous or personally inhuman: it is because they live in and accept a society which is incapable of knowing what a human life is worth.
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History always constitutes the relation between a present and its past. Consequently fear of the present leads to mystification of the past
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