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.
JOHN BERGERTo be naked is to be oneself.
More John Berger Quotes
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We never look at just one thing; we are always looking at the relation between things and ourselves.
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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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Between the experience of living a normal life at this moment on the planet and the public narratives being offered to give a sense to that life, the empty space, the gap, is enormous.
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It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open.
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We only see what we look at. To look is an act of choice.
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[O]ften 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.
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Those who first invented and then named the constellations were storytellers.
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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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Publicity 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.
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Photographs bear witness to a human choice being exercised in a given situation.
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Hope is a contraband passed from hand to hand and story to story.
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You cant draw it for others. You can try, of course, but it doesn’t work. People obeying rules laid down my somebody else is not the same thing as respecting life. And if you want to respect life, you have to draw a line.
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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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What is significant, and is so difficult for the urban stranger to understand, is that the two statements are connected by an and not by a but.
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For the artist, drawing is discovery. And that is not just a slick phrase; it is quite literally true.
JOHN BERGER






