Hope is a contraband passed from hand to hand and story to story.
JOHN BERGERWe know that the earth is turning away from it. Yet the knowledge, the explanation, never quite fits the sight.
More John Berger Quotes
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To remain innocent may also be. to remain ignorant.
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Capitalism survives by forcing the majority, whom it exploits, to define their own interests as narrowly as possible.
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Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time has become Death triumphant over all.
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Ever since the Greek tragedies, artists have, from time to time, asked themselves how they might influence ongoing political events.
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By contrast, a woman’s presence… defines what can and cannot be done to her.
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The zoo cannot but disappoint. The public purpose of zoos is to offer visitors the opportunity of looking at animals.
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Emigration, forced or chosen, across national frontiers or from village to metropolis, is the quintessential experience of our time.
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Photography, because it stops the flow of life, is always flirting with death.
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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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The heart of Paris is like nothing so much as the unending interior of a house.
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The camera relieves us of the burden of memory.
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Nothing fortuitous happens in a child’s world. There are no accidents. Everything is connected with everything else and everything can be explained by everything else. . . . For a young child everything that happens is a necessity.
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Painting is something that you need to do, if not every day, then certainly most days. It is almost like being a pianist: if you stop, you lose something.
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Without ethics man has no future. This is to say mankind without them cannot be itself.
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For the Cro-Magnons, space is a metaphysical arena of continually intermittent appearances and disappearances.
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