John Peter Berger Quotes

• Every painted image of something is also about the absence of the real thing. All painting is about the presence of absence.

  John Peter Berger

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• All weddings are similar but every marriage is different. Death comes to everyone but one mourns alone.

  John Peter Berger

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• Photography, because it stops the flow of life, is always flirting with death.

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• It is not usually possible in a poem or a story to make the relationship between particular and universal fully explicit. Those who try to do so end up writing parables.

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• If we could all live a thousand years…we would each, at least once during that period, be considered a genius.

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• The five senses within whose pentagon each man is alone.

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• A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.

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• We only see what we look at. To look is an act of choice.

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• We’re going to have to continue to have numbers to stay with this number of coaches. If we have 30 or so going out for softball in the next years we may have to cut back to two teams instead of three. The numbers will indicate if we continue to chase this thing. 15 members on a team isn’t too many when you’re playing double headers. We need to do this before we set the schedule. It’s too late to start cutting back now.

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• The art of the past no longer exists as it once did. Its authority is lost. In its place there is a language of images. What matters now is who uses that language for what purpose.

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• As an industry we have become over-reliant on analytics.

  John Peter Berger

• Sometimes, because of its immediacy, television produces a kind of electronic parable. Berlin, for instance, on the day the Wall was opened. Rostropovich was playing his cello by the Wall that no longer cast a shadow, and a million East Berliners were thronging to the West to shop with an allowance given them by West German banks! At that moment the whole world saw how materialism had lost its awesome historic power and become a shopping list.

  John Peter Berger

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

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• There is tremendous demand for this type of service. The main reason for all of this is that it will improve patient care. They get an expert who’s awake during the daytime to look at those results.

  John Peter Berger

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

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• The spectator-buyer is meant to envy herself as she will become if she buys the product. She is meant to imagine herself transformed by the product into an object of envy for others, an envy which will then justify her loving herself.

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• 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 will take place within the four walls of the story. And this is possible because the story’s voice makes everything its own.

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• Never chain your dogs together with sausages. One must accustom one’s self to be bored.

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

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• One can say of language that it is potentially the only human home, the only dwelling place that cannot be hostile to man.

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John Peter Berger (47)

Birth:	5th November, 1926
Death:	2nd January, 2017
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Critic, Essayist, Novelist, Painter, Screenwriter

About

John Peter Berger was born in London, England. He was an English art critic, novelist, painter, essayist and screenwriter. He studied at St Edward's School in Oxford, Chelsea School of Art, and the Central School of Art in London. He began his career as a painter and exhibited works at a number of London galleries in the late 1940s. He taught drawing at St Mary's teacher training college. He wrote several novels include: A Painter of Our Time, The Foot of Clive, Corker's freedom, G. (Won- Booker Prize for Fiction 1972, James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction 1972), Pig Earth, Once in Europa, Lilac and Flag, To the Wedding, and From A to X. He wrote several essays include: Permanent Red, Toward Reality, and The Look of Things. He wrote several books (art criticism) include: Success and Failure of Picasso, Ways of Seeing, About Looking, and Keeping a Rendezvous. He wrote several films include: The Salamander, Middle of the World, Jonah Who Will Be 25 in the Year 2000, and Play Me Something.

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