John Berger

John Berger: When we read...

John Berger: When we read...

When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls. What is to happen next...

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John Berger: The human imagination....

John Berger: The human imagination....

The human imagination. . . has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist practice or...

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John Berger: You can plan...

John Berger: You can plan...

You can plan events, but if they go according to your plan they are not events.

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John Berger: I knew I'd...

John Berger: I knew I'd...

I knew I'd been living in Berkeley too long when I saw a sign that said 'Free firewood and my first thought was Who...

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John Berger: [O]ften art has...

John Berger: [O]ften art has...

[O]ften art has judged the judges, pleaded revenge to the innocent and shown to the future what the past suffered, so...

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John Berger: Nothing fortuitous happens...

John Berger: Nothing fortuitous happens...

Nothing fortuitous happens in a child's world. There are no accidents. Everything is connected with everything else...

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John Berger: All photographs are...

John Berger: All photographs are...

All photographs are there to remind us of what we forget. In this -- as in other ways -- they are the opposite of...

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John Berger: Autobiography begins with...

John Berger: Autobiography begins with...

Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.

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John Berger: A peasant becomes...

John Berger: A peasant becomes...

A peasant becomes fond of his pig and is glad to salt away its pork. What is significant, and is so difficult for the...

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John Berger: Publicity is the...

John Berger: Publicity is the...

Publicity is the life of this culture -- in so far as without publicity capitalism could not survive -- and at the...

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John Berger: Ours is the...

John Berger: Ours is the...

Ours is the century of enforced travel. . . of disappearances. The century of people helplessly seeing others, who...

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John Berger: Glamor cannot exist...

John Berger: Glamor cannot exist...

Glamor cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion.

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John Berger: Unlike any other...

John Berger: Unlike any other...

Unlike any other visual image, a photograph is not a rendering, an imitation or an interpretation of its subject, but...

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John Berger: I can't tell...

John Berger: I can't tell...

I can't tell you what art does and how it does it, but I know that often art has judged the judges, pleaded revenge to...

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John Berger: The spectator-buyer is...

John Berger: The spectator-buyer is...

The spectator-buyer is meant to envy herself as she will become if she buys the product. She is meant to imagine...

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