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.
JOHN BERGERIt was more than that. It was the period in which we suffered more total losses than in all the rest of our life put together.
More John Berger Quotes
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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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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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Advertising is not merely an assembly of competing messages; it is a language itself which is always being used to make the same general proposal
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Nothing in the nature around us is evil. This needs to be repeated since one of the human ways of talking oneself into inhuman acts is to cite the supposed cruelty of nature.
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Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.
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What any true painting touches is an absence – an absence of which without the painting, we might be unaware. And that would be our loss.
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The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.
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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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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 creation is in the art of seeing.
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(The sight of it as an object stimulates the use of it as an object.) Nakedness reveals itself. Nudity is placed on display. To be naked is to be without disguises.
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Ours is the century of enforced travel of disappearances.
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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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My heart born naked was swaddled in lullabies.
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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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