Yet the first symbols were animals. What distinguished men from animals was born of their relationship with them.
JOHN BERGERIt can happen that a book, unlike its authors, grows younger as the years pass.
More John Berger Quotes
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Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.
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The human imagination… has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist practice or philosophy.
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Propaganda requires a permanent network of communication so that it can systematically stifle reflection with emotive or utopian slogans. Its pace is usually fast.
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What is saved in the cinema when it achieves art is a spontaneous continuity with all mankind.
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No painting or drawing, however naturalist, belongs to its subject in the way that a photograph does.
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Photography, because it stops the flow of life, is always flirting with death.
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This is not because they are callous or personally inhuman: it is because they live in and accept a society which is incapable of knowing what a human life is worth.
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Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak.
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To be desired is perhaps the closest anybody in this life can reach to feeling immortal.
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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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All weddings are similar, but every marriage is different.
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Traditional Chinese art looked at the Earth from a Confucian mountain top;
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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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It is seeing which establishes our place in the surrounding world; we explain that world with words, but words can never undo the fact that we are surrounded by it
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[O]ften art has judged the judges, pleaded revenge to the innocent and shown to the future what the past suffered, so that it has never been forgotten.
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