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.
JOHN BERGERFor the Cro-Magnons, space is a metaphysical arena of continually intermittent appearances and disappearances.
More John Berger Quotes
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Nothing fortuitous happens in a child’s world. There are no accidents. Everything is connected with everything else and everything can be explained by everything else. . . . For a young child everything that happens is a necessity.
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I use charcoal a lot. Partly because it has such a fantastic range but also because it is very easy to erase.
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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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Capitalism survives by forcing the majority, whom it exploits, to define their own interests as narrowly as possible.
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The spectator-buyer is meant to envy herself as she will become if she buys the product.
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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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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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The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.
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When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls.
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Those who first invented and then named the constellations were storytellers.
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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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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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The camera relieves us of the burden of memory.
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The century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to them, disappear over the horizon.
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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.
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