We each have to choose what is inconceivable for us. As
artists—and this is the curse that is upon us—we must
each visualize our own city, ourself at its centre. . . .
~ John Berger
Quoted from John Berger, A Painter of Our Time (Vintage, 1996), page 132; Epigraph, Chapter 6 in Joshua Sperling, A Writer of Our Time: The Life and Work of John Berger (Verso, 2018), page 161
John Berger (1926-2017), English Art Critic; Novelist, Poet, Essayist, Screenwriter, Dramatist; Painter
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