As Nelson Mandela has pointed out, boycott is not a principle, it is a tactic depending upon circumstances.
JOHN BERGEREverything in life, is a question of drawing a life, John, and you have to decide for yourself where to draw it.
More John Berger Quotes
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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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Every painted image of something is also about the absence of the real thing. All painting is about the presence of absence.
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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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Ours is the century of enforced travel of disappearances.
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Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion.
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Common-sense is part of the home-made ideology of those who have been deprived of fundamental learning, of those who have been kept ignorant.
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If the public photograph contributes to a memory, it is to the memory of an unknowable and total stranger.
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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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Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak.
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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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The human imagination… has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist practice or philosophy.
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The relation between what we see and what we know is never settled. Each evening we see the sun set.
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The camera relieves us of the burden of memory. It surveys us like God, and it surveys for us. Yet no other god has been so cynical, for the camera records in order to forget.
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To be naked is to be oneself. To be nude is to be seen naked by others and yet not recognised for oneself.
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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.
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