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John Berger quotes about past

English Artist November 5, 1926

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I can't tell you what art does and how it does it, but I know that art has often judged the judges, pleaded revenge to the innocent and shown to the future what the past has suffered, so that it has never been forgotten. I know too that the powerful fear art, whatever its form, when it does this, and that amongst the people such art sometimes runs like a rumour and a legend because it makes sense of what life's brutalities cannot, a sense that unites us, for it is inseparable from a justice... John Berger
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 is to change its consequences. John Berger
John Berger quote: "Today we see the art of the past as nobody saw it before. We..."
Today we see the art of the past as nobody saw it before. We actually perceive it in a different way. John Berger
Publicity is in essence, nostalgic. It has to sell the past to the future... According to publicity, to be sophisticated is to live beyond conflict. John Berger
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. John Berger
History always constitutes the relation between a present and its past. Consequently fear of the present leads to mystification of the past John Berger
John Berger quote: "The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying."
The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying. John Berger

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