Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak.
JOHN BERGERSeeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak.
More John Berger Quotes
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Nakedness reveals itself. Nudity is placed on display. The nude is condemned to never being naked. Nudity is a form of dress.
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Photography, because it stops the flow of life, is always flirting with death.
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The century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to them, disappear over the horizon.
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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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Post-modernism has cut off the present from all futures. The daily media add to this by cutting off the past. Which means that critical opinion is often orphaned in the present.
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Buildings become furniture, courtyards become carpets and arrases, the streets are like galleries, the boulevards conservatories. It is a house, one or two centuries old, rich, bourgeois, distinguished. The only way of going out, or shutting the door behind you, is to leave the centre.
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Today the discredit of words is very great.
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Poetry can repair no loss, but it defies the space which separates. And it does this by its continual labor of reassembling what has been scattered.
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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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Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion.
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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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Drawing is a way of coming upon the connection between things, just like metaphor in poetry reconnects what has become separated.
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The human imagination… has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist practice or philosophy.
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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 drawing is essentially a private work, related only to the artist’s own needs; a ‘finished’ statue or canvas is essentially a public, presented work – related far more directly to the demands of communication.
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