Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.
JOHN BERGERMy heart born naked was swaddled in lullabies.
More John Berger Quotes
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The true content of a photograph is invisible, for it derives from a play, not with form, but with time.
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The zoo cannot but disappoint.
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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.
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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 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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All publicity works upon anxiety.
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The camera relieves us of the burden of memory.
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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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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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The extreme proposition on which Giacometti based all his mature work was that no reality… could ever be shared. This is why he believed it impossible for a work to be finished. This is why the content of any work is not the nature of the figure or head portrayed but the incomplete history of him staring at it.
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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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Protest 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.
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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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Traditional Chinese art looked at the Earth from a Confucian mountain top;
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You can plan events, but if they go according to your plan they are not events.
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