Ours is the century of enforced travel of disappearances.
JOHN BERGERWithout ethics man has no future. This is to say mankind without them cannot be itself.
More John Berger Quotes
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Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion.
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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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Never again shall a single story be told as though it were the only one.
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A drawing is an autobiographical record of one’s discovery of an event – either seen, remembered or imagined. A ‘finished’ work is an attempt to construct an event in itself.
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We never look at just one thing; we are always looking at the relation between things and ourselves.
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The surveyor of woman in herself is male: the surveyed female. Thus she turns herself into an object – and most particularly an object of vision: a sight.
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The contradiction in perspective was that it structured all images of reality to address a single spectator who, unlike God, could only be in one place at a time.
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At times failure is very necessary for the artist. It reminds him that failure is not the ultimate disaster. And this reminder liberates him from the mean fussing of perfectionism.
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Tracing an imaginary line between a cluster of stars gave them an image and an identity.
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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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All weddings are similar, but every marriage is different.
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Drawing is a way of coming upon the connection between things, just like metaphor in poetry reconnects what has become separated.
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The century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to them, disappear over the horizon.
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It is not usually possible in a poem or a story to make the relationship between particular and universal fully explicit. Those who try to do so end up writing parables.
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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.
JOHN BERGER