John Berger Quotes & Quotations

John Berger Quotes

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

» Ours is the century of enforced travel of disappearances. The century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to them, disappear over the horizon.

» The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.

» 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.

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

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

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

» Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time has become Death triumphant over all.

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

» 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.

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