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The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying (John Berger Quotes)
All weddings are similar, but every marriage is different (John Berger Quotes)
Every city has a sex and age which have nothing to do with demography (John Berger Quotes)
Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at (John Berger Quotes)
Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman (John Berger Quotes)
To remain innocent may also be. to remain ignorant (John Berger Quotes)
The zoo cannot but disappoint (John Berger Quotes)
The camera relieves us of the burden of memory (John Berger Quotes)
Hope is a contraband passed from hand to hand and story to story (John Berger Quotes)
Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time has become Death triumphant over all (John Berger Quotes)
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 (John Berger Quotes)
Publicity is the life of this culture - in so far as without publicity capitalism could not survive - and at the same time publicity is its dream (John Berger Quotes)
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 (John Berger Quotes)
To be desired is perhaps the closest anybody in this life can reach to feeling immortal (John Berger Quotes)
We who draw do so not only to make something observed visible to others, but also to accompany something invisible to its incalculable destination (John Berger Quotes)
It is not usually possible in a poem or a story to make the relationship between particular and universal fully explicit. Those who try to do so end up writing parables (John Berger Quotes)
Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form (John Berger Quotes)
Fanaticism comes from any form of chosen blindness accompanying the pursuit of a single dogma (John Berger Quotes)
Every city has a sex and an age which have nothing to do with demography. Rome is feminine. So is Odessa. London is a teenager, an urchin, and, in this, hasn’t changed since the time of Dickens. Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman (John Berger Quotes)
The collaboration which sometimes follows is seldom based on good will: usually on desire, rage, fear, pity or longing. The modern illusion concerning painting (which post-modernism has done nothing to correct) is that the artist is the creator. Rather he is a reciever. What seems like creaton is the act of giving form to what he has recieved (John Berger Quotes)
A drawing is an autobiographical record of one’s discovery of an event - either seen, remembered or imagined. A ‘finished’ work is an attempt to construct an event in itself (John Berger Quotes)
As Nelson Mandela has pointed out, boycott is not a principle, it is a tactic depending upon circumstances. A tactic which allows people, as distinct from their elected but often craven governments, to apply a certain pressure on those wielding power in what they, the boycotters, consider to be an unjust or immoral way (John Berger Quotes)
Traditional Chinese art looked at the Earth from a Confucian mountain top; Japanese art looked closely around screens; Italian Renaissance art surveyed conquered nature through the window or door-frame of a palace. For the Cro-Magnons, space is a metaphysical arena of continually intermittent appearances and disappearances (John Berger Quotes)
There’s the artist’s intimacy and truthfulness to himself, but an equal intimacy to the Other [the one drawn]. Picasso drawings are like that... the Rembrandts are like that. The artist who most often did that was Van Gogh (John Berger Quotes)
In drawing after drawing, pastel after pastel, painting after painting, the contours of Degas’s dancing figures become, at a certain point, darkly insistent, tangled and dusky. It may be around an elbow, a heel, an armpit, a calf muscle, the nape of a neck. (John Berger Quotes)
Words are so often used in the opposite sense, as a screen of diversion. It’s the struggle towards truthfulness which is the same whether one is writing a poem, a novel or an argument. (John Berger Quotes)
Never chain your dogs together with sausages. One must accustom one’s self to be bored. (John Berger Quotes)
In Degas’s compositions with several dancers, their steps, postures and gestures often resemble the almost geometric, formal letters of an alphabet, whereas their bodies and heads are recalcitrant, sinuous and individual. (John Berger Quotes)
A cigarette is a breathing space. It makes a parenthesis. The time of a cigarette is a parenthesis, and if it is shared, you are both in that parenthesis. It’s like a proscenium arch for a dialogue. (John Berger Quotes)
A man’s presence suggests what he is capable of doing to you or for you. By contrast, a woman’s presence . . . defines what can and cannot be done to her. (John Berger Quotes)