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.
JOHN BERGERWhen he painted a road, the roadmakers were there in his imagination, when he painted the turned earth of a ploughed field, the gesture of the blade turning the earth was included in his own act.
More John Berger Quotes
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Every authentic poem contributes to the labour of poetry… to bring together what life has separated or violence has torn apart.
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You are observed with interest but you do not observe with interest – if you do, you will become less enviable. In this respect the envied are like bureaucrats; the more impersonal they are, the greater the illusion (for themselves and for others) of their power.
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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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Ours is the century of enforced travel of disappearances.
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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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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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The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich.
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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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The camera relieves us of the burden of memory.
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A peasant becomes fond of his pig and is glad to salt away its pork.
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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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The woman’s sexual passion needs to be minimized, so that the spectator may feel that he has the monopoly on such passion
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It is comparatively easy to achieve a certain unity in a picture by allowing one colour to dominate, or by muting all the colours.
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Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.
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Yet nowherein a zoo can a stranger encounter the look of an animal. At the most, the animal’s gaze flickers and passes on. They look sideways. They look blindly beyond.
JOHN BERGER