If everything that existed were continually being photographed, every photograph would become meaningless.
JOHN BERGERWe follow songs in order to be enclosed. We find ourselves inside a message.
More John Berger Quotes
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A photograph is a meeting place where the interests of the photographer, the photographed, the viewer and those who are using the photograph are often contradictory.
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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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Common-sense is part of the home-made ideology of those who have been deprived of fundamental learning, of those who have been kept ignorant.
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The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.
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Oil painting did to appearances what capital did to social relations. It reduced everything to the equality of objects.
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To remain innocent may also be. to remain ignorant.
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Yet the first symbols were animals. What distinguished men from animals was born of their relationship with them.
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This determines not only most relations between men and women but also the relation of women to themselves.
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The unsung, impersonal world remains outside, on the other surface of a placenta. All songs, even when their content or rendering is strongly masculine, operate maternally.
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It can happen that a book, unlike its authors, grows younger as the years pass.
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A photograph is a result of the photographer’s decision that it is worth recording that this particular event or this particular object has been seen. If everything that existed were continually being photographed, every photograph would become meaningless.
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In the average European oil painting of the nude the principal protagonist is never painted. He is the spectator in front of the picture and he is presumed to be a man.
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Matisse did neither. He clashed his colours together like cymbals and the effect was like a lullaby.
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When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls.
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The camera relieves us of the burden of memory.
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