Hair is associated with sexual power. With passion.
JOHN BERGERI use charcoal a lot. Partly because it has such a fantastic range but also because it is very easy to erase.
More John Berger Quotes
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The century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to them, disappear over the horizon.
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If everything that existed were continually being photographed, every photograph would become meaningless.
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To live and die amongst foreigners may seem less absurd than to live persecuted or tortured by one’s fellow countrymen….
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Traditional Chinese art looked at the Earth from a Confucian mountain top;
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It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open.
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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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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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Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.
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For those who are behind the curtain, landmarks are no longer only geographic but also biographical and personal
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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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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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It is seeing which establishes our place in the surrounding world; we explain that world with words, but words can never undo the fact that we are surrounded by it
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The opposite of love is not to hate but to separate. If love and hate have something in common it is because, in both cases, their energy is that of bringing and holding together
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Everything in life, is a question of drawing a life, John, and you have to decide for yourself where to draw it.
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You are observed with interest but you do not observe with interest – if you do, you will become less enviable. In this respect 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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