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John Berger Quotes

English - Artist | November 5, 1926 - January 2, 2017

Without ethics, man has no future. This is to say, mankind without them cannot be itself. Ethics determine choices and actions and suggest difficult priorities.

Future Man Ethics Choices Priorities

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

Alone Being Alone Being Sense Begins

That we find a crystal or a poppy beautiful means that we are less alone, that we are more deeply inserted into existence than the course of a single life would lead us to believe.

Life Alone Beautiful Believe Find

Nakedness reveals itself. Nudity is placed on display. The nude is condemned to never being naked. Nudity is a form of dress.

Dress Never Naked Being Display

The human imagination... has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist practice or philosophy. It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open.

Dog Dreams Great Imagination Living

What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time.

Time Art Light Photography Strange

Unlike any other visual image, a photograph is not a rendering, an imitation or an interpretation of its subject, but actually a trace of it. No painting or drawing, however naturalist, belongs to its subject in the way that a photograph does.

Painting Drawing Way Image Imitation

The point about hope is that it is something that occurs in very dark moments. It is like a flame in the darkness; it isn't like a confidence and a promise.

Confidence Hope Darkness Flame Dark

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.

World Rest Rich Priorities Result

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.

God Memory Camera Burden Forget Us

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.

Nature Art Mountain Space Window

Emigration, forced or chosen, across national frontiers or from village to metropolis, is the quintessential experience of our time.

Time Experience Village Chosen Our

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