Common-sense is part of the home-made ideology of those who have been deprived of fundamental learning, of those who have been kept ignorant.
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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Writers who have neither product utopian trash.
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The past is the one thing we are not prisoners of. We can do with the past exactly what we wish. What we can’t do is to change its consequences.
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Oil painting did to appearances what capital did to social relations. It reduced everything to the equality of objects.
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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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Without ethics man has no future. This is to say mankind without them cannot be itself.
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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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Landscapes can be deceptive. Sometimes a landscape seems to be less a setting for the life of its inhabitants than a curtain behind which their struggles, achievements and accidents takes place.
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To remain innocent may also be. to remain ignorant.
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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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It was more than that. It was the period in which we suffered more total losses than in all the rest of our life put together.
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The true content of a photograph is invisible, for it derives from a play, not with form, but with time.
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Photography, because it stops the flow of life, is always flirting with death.
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One can say of language that it is potentially the only human home, the only dwelling place that cannot be hostile to man.
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The camera relieves us of the burden of memory.
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I can’t tell you what art does and how it does it, but I know that often 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.
JOHN BERGER