Everything in life, is a question of drawing a life, John, and you have to decide for yourself where to draw it.
JOHN BERGERWhen we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls.
More John Berger Quotes
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The publicity image steals her love of herself as she is, and offers it back to her for the price of the product.
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Fanaticism comes from any form of chosen blindness accompanying the pursuit of a single dogma.
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The impulse to paint comes neither from observation nor from the soul (which is probably blind) but from an encounter: the encounter between painter and model: even if the model is a mountain or a shelf of empty medicine bottles.
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If the public photograph contributes to a memory, it is to the memory of an unknowable and total stranger.
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Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.
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Those who first invented and then named the constellations were storytellers.
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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 man’s presence suggests what he is capable of doing to you or for you.
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Pleasure and pain need to be considered together; they are inseparable. Yet the space filled by each is perhaps different. Pleasure, defined as a sense of gratification, is essential for nature
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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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In the modern world, in which thousands of people are dying every hour as a consequence of politics, no writing anywhere can begin to be credible unless it is informed by political awareness and principles.
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There’s the artist’s intimacy and truthfulness to himself, but an equal intimacy to the Other [the one drawn].
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What is to happen next will take place within the four walls of the story. And this is possible because the story’s voice makes everything its own.
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If everything that existed were continually being photographed, every photograph would become meaningless.
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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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