A peasant becomes fond of his pig and is glad to salt away its pork.
JOHN BERGERWhenever he looked he saw the labour of existence; and this labour, recognised as such, was what constituted reality for him. (On Vincent Van Gogh)
More John Berger Quotes
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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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Every authentic poem contributes to the labor of poetry… to bring together what life has separated or violence has torn apart…
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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 publicity image steals her love of herself as she is, and offers it back to her for the price of the product.
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Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.
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Fanaticism comes from any form of chosen blindness accompanying the pursuit of a single dogma.
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Ours is the century of enforced travel of disappearances.
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Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.
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Do you know the legend about cicadas? They say they are the souls of poets who cannot keep quiet because, when they were alive, they never wrote the poems they wanted to.
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The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich.
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All publicity works upon anxiety.
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The strange power of art is sometimes it can show that what people have in common is more urgent than what differentiates them. It seems to me it’s something that theatre can do, but it’s rare; it’s very rare.
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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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Photography, because it stops the flow of life, is always flirting with death.
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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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