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One Quotes by John Berger
- The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.
- Never chain your dogs together with sausages. One must accustom one's self to be bored.
- One can say of language that it is potentially the only human home, the only dwelling place that cannot be hostile to man.
- 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…
- 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…
- All photographs are there to remind us of what we forget. In this - as in other ways - they are the opposite of paintings.…
- 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…
- One of the fundamental reasons why so many doctors become cynical and disillusioned is precisely because, when the abstract idealism has worn thin, they are…
- We never look at just one thing; we are always looking at the relation between things and ourselves.
- 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…
- Never again shall a single story be told as though it were the only one.
- Whenever the intensity of looking reaches a certain degree, one becomes aware of an equally intense energy coming towards one through the appearance of whatever…
- The past is the one thing we are not prisoners of. We can do with the past exactly what we wish. What we can't do…
- When I was about seven, one or two people encouraged me, and art became an enormous and important refuge. By adolescence, I was absolutely passionate…
- Boycott is not a principle. When it becomes one, it itself risks becoming exclusive and racist. No boycott, in our sense of the term, should…
- Art is the provocation for talking about enigma and the search for sense in human life. One can do that by telling a story or…
- Globalisation means many things. At one level, it talks of trade, which since the 16th century has exchanged goods and now, increasingly, ideas and information…
- Cow and horse dung, as muckgoes, are relatively agreeable. You can even become nostalgic about them. They smell of fermented grain, and on the far…
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