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.
JOHN BERGERParis, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.
More John Berger Quotes
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A man’s presence suggests what he is capable of doing to you or for you.
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It can happen that a book, unlike its authors, grows younger as the years pass.
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Traditional Chinese art looked at the Earth from a Confucian mountain top;
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The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.
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For the Cro-Magnons, space is a metaphysical arena of continually intermittent appearances and disappearances.
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Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity.
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If everything that existed were continually being photographed, every photograph would become meaningless.
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All photographs are there to remind us of what we forget. In this – as in other ways – they are the opposite of paintings.
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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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I wanted to write about looking at the world, so it’s more about helping people, or persuading people, to see what is around us; both the marvellous and the terrible.
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Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.
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Art, when it functions like this, becomes a meeting-place of the invisible, the irreducible, the enduring, guts, and honor.
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What is to happen next will take place within the four walls of the story. And this is possible because the story’s voice makes everything its own.
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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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A cigarette is a breathing space. It makes a parenthesis.
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