If everything that existed were continually being photographed, every photograph would become meaningless.
JOHN BERGERProtest and anger practically always derives from hope, and the shouting out against injustice is always in the hope of those injustices being somewhat corrected and a little more justice established.
More John Berger Quotes
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Ever since the Greek tragedies, artists have, from time to time, asked themselves how they might influence ongoing political events.
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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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Every authentic poem contributes to the labor of poetry… to bring together what life has separated or violence has torn apart…
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To be naked is to be oneself. To be nude is to be seen naked by others and yet not recognised for oneself.
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Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion.
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The time of a cigarette is a parenthesis, and if it is shared, you are both in that parenthesis. Its like a proscenium arch for a dialogue.
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Whenever the intensity of looking reaches a certain degree, one becomes aware of an equally intense energy coming towards one through the appearance of whatever it is one is scrutinizing.
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The happiness of being envied is glamour. Being envied is a solitary form of reassurance. It depends precisely upon not sharing your experience with those who envy you.
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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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The zoo cannot but disappoint.
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The heart of Paris is like nothing so much as the unending interior of a house.
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The impulse to paint comes neither from observation nor from the soul (which is probably blind) but from an encounter: the encounter between painter and model: even if the model is a mountain or a shelf of empty medicine bottles.
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We never look at just one thing; we are always looking at the relation between things and ourselves.
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As Nelson Mandela has pointed out, boycott is not a principle, it is a tactic depending upon circumstances.
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Fanaticism comes from any form of chosen blindness accompanying the pursuit of a single dogma.
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