All creation is in the art of seeing.
JOHN BERGERLandscapes can be deceptive. Sometimes a landscape seems to be less a setting for the life of its inhabitants than a curtain behind which their struggles, achievements and accidents takes place.
More John Berger Quotes
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The camera relieves us of the burden of memory.
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You are observed with interest but you do not observe with interest – if you do, you will become less enviable. In this respect the envied are like bureaucrats; the more impersonal they are, the greater the illusion (for themselves and for others) of their power.
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One can say of language that it is potentially the only human home, the only dwelling place that cannot be hostile to man.
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Protest and anger practically always derives from hope, and the shouting out against injustice is always in the hope of those injustices being somewhat corrected and a little more justice established.
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The envied are like bureaucrats; the more impersonal they are, the greater the illusion (for themselves and for others) of their power.
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What distinguished man from animals was the human capacity for symbolic thought, the capacity which was inseparable from the development of language in which words were not mere signals, but signifiers of something other than themselves.
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To remain innocent may also be. to remain ignorant.
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We know that the earth is turning away from it. Yet the knowledge, the explanation, never quite fits the sight.
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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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Post-modernism has cut off the present from all futures. The daily media add to this by cutting off the past. Which means that critical opinion is often orphaned in the present.
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Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion.
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For the Cro-Magnons, space is a metaphysical arena of continually intermittent appearances and disappearances.
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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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Every city has a sex and an age which have nothing to do with demography. Rome is feminine. So is Odessa. London is a teenager, an urchin, and, in this, hasn’t changed since the time of Dickens. Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.
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If the public photograph contributes to a memory, it is to the memory of an unknowable and total stranger.
JOHN BERGER