For those who are behind the curtain, landmarks are no longer only geographic but also biographical and personal
JOHN BERGERBetween the experience of living a normal life at this moment on the planet and the public narratives being offered to give a sense to that life, the empty space, the gap, is enormous.
More John Berger Quotes
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We know that the earth is turning away from it. Yet the knowledge, the explanation, never quite fits the sight.
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For me, drawing is a lot to do with taking out, with returning to the white of the paper.
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Post-modernism has cut off the present from all futures. The daily media add to this by cutting off the past. Which means that critical opinion is often orphaned in the present.
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The zoo cannot but disappoint.
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Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.
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In the modern world, in which thousands of people are dying every hour as a consequence of politics, no writing anywhere can begin to be credible unless it is informed by political awareness and principles.
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The animal has secrets which, unlike the secrets of caves, mountains, seas are specifically addressed to man.
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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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Paintings record what the painter remembers. Because each one of us forgets different things, a photo more than a painting may change its meaning according to who is looking at it.
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Hope is a contraband passed from hand to hand and story to story.
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Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak.
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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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If everything that existed were continually being photographed, every photograph would become meaningless.
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To live and die amongst foreigners may seem less absurd than to live persecuted or tortured by one’s fellow countrymen….
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This determines not only most relations between men and women but also the relation of women to themselves.
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