No painting or drawing, however naturalist, belongs to its subject in the way that a photograph does.
JOHN BERGERMen look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.
More John Berger Quotes
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For me, drawing is a lot to do with taking out, with returning to the white of the paper.
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Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.
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Tracing an imaginary line between a cluster of stars gave them an image and an identity.
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When we suffer anguish we return to early childhood because that is the period in which we first learnt to suffer the experience of total loss.
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The animal has secrets which, unlike the secrets of caves, mountains, seas are specifically addressed to man.
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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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A tactic which allows people, as distinct from their elected but often craven governments, to apply a certain pressure on those wielding power in what they, the boycotters, consider to be an unjust or immoral way.
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The envied are like bureaucrats; the more impersonal they are, the greater the illusion (for themselves and for others) of their power.
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Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity.
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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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If every event which occurred could be given a name, there would be no need for stories.
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Art, when it functions like this, becomes a meeting-place of the invisible, the irreducible, the enduring, guts, and honor.
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But toemigrate is always to dismantle the centre of the world, and so to move into a lost, disoriented one of fragments.
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All photographs are there to remind us of what we forget. In this – as in other ways – they are the opposite of paintings.
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It is comparatively easy to achieve a certain unity in a picture by allowing one colour to dominate, or by muting all the colours.
JOHN BERGER