For those who are behind the curtain, landmarks are no longer only geographic but also biographical and personal
JOHN BERGERThe true content of a photograph is invisible, for it derives from a play, not with form, but with time.
More John Berger Quotes
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Ours is the century of enforced travel of disappearances.
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As Nelson Mandela has pointed out, boycott is not a principle, it is a tactic depending upon circumstances.
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There’s the artist’s intimacy and truthfulness to himself, but an equal intimacy to the Other [the one drawn].
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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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Without ethics man has no future. This is to say mankind without them cannot be itself.
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What is saved in the cinema when it achieves art is a spontaneous continuity with all mankind.
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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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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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To be desired is perhaps the closest anybody in this life can reach to feeling immortal.
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She is meant to imagine herself transformed by the product into an object of envy for others, an envy which will then justify her loving herself.
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To be naked is to be oneself. To be nude is to be seen naked by others and yet not recognised for oneself.
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It was more than that. It was the period in which we suffered more total losses than in all the rest of our life put together.
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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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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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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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