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.
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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Unlike any other visual image, a photograph is not a rendering, an imitation or an interpretation of its subject, but actually a trace of it.
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It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open.
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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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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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For me, drawing is a lot to do with taking out, with returning to the white of the paper.
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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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At times failure is very necessary for the artist. It reminds him that failure is not the ultimate disaster. And this reminder liberates him from the mean fussing of perfectionism.
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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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Oil painting did to appearances what capital did to social relations. It reduced everything to the equality of objects.
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Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.
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She is meant to imagine herself transformed by the product into an object of envy for others, an envy which will then justify her loving herself.
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It is not usually possible in a poem or a story to make the relationship between particular and universal fully explicit. Those who try to do so end up writing parables.
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Deep in the nature of theatre is a sense of ritual. The cinema, by contrast, transports its audience individually, singly, out of the theatre towards the unknown.
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The camera relieves us of the burden of memory. It surveys us like God, and it surveys for us. Yet no other god has been so cynical, for the camera records in order to forget.
JOHN BERGER