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From Quotes by John Berger
- Ever since the Greek tragedies, artists have, from time to time, asked themselves how they might influence ongoing political events.
- Fanaticism comes from any form of chosen blindness accompanying the pursuit of a single dogma.
- Hope is a contraband passed from hand to hand and story to story.
- Emigration, forced or chosen, across national frontiers or from village to metropolis, is the quintessential experience of our time.
- 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…
- Protest and anger practically always derives from hope, and the shouting out against injustice is always in the hope of those injustices being somewhat corrected…
- 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…
- 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…
- What is saved in the cinema when it achieves art is a spontaneous continuity with all mankind. It is not an art of the princes…
- At times failure is very necessary for the artist. It reminds him that failure is not the ultimate disaster. And this reminder liberates him from…
- My heart born naked was swaddled in lullabies. Later alone it wore poems for clothes. Like a shirt I carried on my back the poetry…
- The impulse to paint comes neither from observation nor from the soul (which is probably blind) but from an encounter: the encounter between painter and…
- The relation between what we see and what we know is never settled. Each evening we see the sun set. We know that the earth…
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