One can say of language that it is potentially the only human home, the only dwelling place that cannot be hostile to man.
JOHN BERGERThe zoo cannot but disappoint.
More John Berger Quotes
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Nakedness reveals itself. Nudity is placed on display. The nude is condemned to never being naked. Nudity is a form of dress.
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Later alone it wore poems for clothes. Like a shirt I carried on my back the poetry I had read. So I lived for half a century until wordlessly we met. From my shirt on the back of the chair I learn tonight how many years of learning by heart I waited for you.
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It is not an art of the princes or the bourgeoisie. It is popular and vagrant. In the sky of the cinema people learn what they might have been and discover what belongs to them apart from their single lives.
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Picasso drawings are like that… the Rembrandts are like that. The artist who most often did that was Van Gogh.
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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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When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls.
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My heart born naked was swaddled in lullabies.
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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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Tracing an imaginary line between a cluster of stars gave them an image and an identity.
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Compassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural.
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If everything that existed were continually being photographed, every photograph would become meaningless.
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Never again shall a single story be told as though it were the only one.
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It can happen that a book, unlike its authors, grows younger as the years pass.
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To be naked is to be oneself.
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We only see what we look at. To look is an act of choice.
JOHN BERGER