Landscapes can be deceptive. Sometimes a landscape seems to be less a setting for the life of its inhabitants than a curtain behind which their struggles, achievements and accidents takes place.
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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Fanaticism comes from any form of chosen blindness accompanying the pursuit of a single dogma.
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Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion.
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If everything that existed were continually being photographed, every photograph would become meaningless.
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Every city has a sex and an age which have nothing to do with demography. Rome is feminine. So is Odessa. London is a teenager, an urchin, and, in this, hasn’t changed since the time of Dickens. Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.
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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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The existence of pleasure is the first mystery. The existence of pain has prompted far more philosophical speculation.
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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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It is not an art of the princes or the bourgeoisie. It is popular and vagrant. In the sky of the cinema people learn what they might have been and discover what belongs to them apart from their single lives.
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To remain innocent may also be. to remain ignorant.
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All publicity works upon anxiety.
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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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A cigarette is a breathing space. It makes a parenthesis.
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A man’s presence suggests what he is capable of doing to you or for you.
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These contradictions both hide and increase the natural ambiguity of the photographic image.
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Hope is a contraband passed from hand to hand and story to story.
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