Japanese art looked closely around screens; Italian Renaissance art surveyed conquered nature through the window or door-frame of a palace.
JOHN BERGERPublicity is the life of this culture – in so far as without publicity capitalism could not survive – and at the same time publicity is its dream.
More John Berger Quotes
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Every authentic poem contributes to the labor of poetry… to bring together what life has separated or violence has torn apart…
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Every authentic poem contributes to the labour of poetry… to bring together what life has separated or violence has torn apart.
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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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The zoo cannot but disappoint. The public purpose of zoos is to offer visitors the opportunity of looking at animals.
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The existence of pleasure is the first mystery. The existence of pain has prompted far more philosophical speculation.
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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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The unsung, impersonal world remains outside, on the other surface of a placenta. All songs, even when their content or rendering is strongly masculine, operate maternally.
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Traditional Chinese art looked at the Earth from a Confucian mountain top;
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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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When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls.
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Poetry can repair no loss, but it defies the space which separates. And it does this by its continual labor of reassembling what has been scattered.
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Ever since the Greek tragedies, artists have, from time to time, asked themselves how they might influence ongoing political events.
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Never chain your dogs together with sausages. One must accustom one’s self to be bored.
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Never again shall a single story be told as though it were the only one.
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No painting or drawing, however naturalist, belongs to its subject in the way that a photograph does.
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