Art, when it functions like this, becomes a meeting-place of the invisible, the irreducible, the enduring, guts, and honor.
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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The happiness of being envied is glamour. Being envied is a solitary form of reassurance. It depends precisely upon not sharing your experience with those who envy you.
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All photographs are there to remind us of what we forget. In this – as in other ways – they are the opposite of paintings.
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Traditional Chinese art looked at the Earth from a Confucian mountain top;
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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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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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All publicity works upon anxiety.
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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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A peasant becomes fond of his pig and is glad to salt away its pork.
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The opposite of love is not to hate but to separate. If love and hate have something in common it is because, in both cases, their energy is that of bringing and holding together
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The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.
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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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Fanaticism comes from any form of chosen blindness accompanying the pursuit of a single dogma.
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Without ethics man has no future. This is to say mankind without them cannot be itself.
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The zoo cannot but disappoint.
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It can happen that a book, unlike its authors, grows younger as the years pass.
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