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 BERGERI 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.
More John Berger Quotes
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No painting or drawing, however naturalist, belongs to its subject in the way that a photograph does.
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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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Tracing an imaginary line between a cluster of stars gave them an image and an identity.
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You can plan events, but if they go according to your plan they are not events.
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The spectator-buyer is meant to envy herself as she will become if she buys the product.
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Ours is the century of enforced travel of disappearances.
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For those who are behind the curtain, landmarks are no longer only geographic but also biographical and personal
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Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.
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All creation is in the art of seeing.
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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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We can become anything. That is why injustice is impossible here. There may be the accident of birth, there is no accident of death. Nothing forces us to remain what we were.
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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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Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion.
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Hair is associated with sexual power. With passion.
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Between the experience of living a normal life at this moment on the planet and the public narratives being offered to give a sense to that life, the empty space, the gap, is enormous.
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