The camera relieves us of the burden of memory.
JOHN BERGERJapanese art looked closely around screens; Italian Renaissance art surveyed conquered nature through the window or door-frame of a palace.
More John Berger Quotes
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Never chain your dogs together with sausages. One must accustom one’s self to be bored.
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The publicity image steals her love of herself as she is, and offers it back to her for the price of the product.
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The power of the glamorous resides in their supposed happiness: the power of the bureaucrat in his supposed authority.
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A tactic which allows people, as distinct from their elected but often craven governments, to apply a certain pressure on those wielding power in what they, the boycotters, consider to be an unjust or immoral way.
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Without ethics man has no future. This is to say mankind without them cannot be itself.
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Those who first invented and then named the constellations were storytellers.
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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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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 stars threaded on that line were like events threaded on a narrative. Imagining the constellations did not of course change the stars, nor did it change the black emptiness that surrounds them. What it changed was the way people read the night sky.
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This determines not only most relations between men and women but also the relation of women to themselves.
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Common-sense is part of the home-made ideology of those who have been deprived of fundamental learning, of those who have been kept ignorant.
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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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To live and die amongst foreigners may seem less absurd than to live persecuted or tortured by one’s fellow countrymen….
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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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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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