The century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to them, disappear over the horizon.
JOHN BERGER
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.
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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Your lips, beloved, are like a honeycomb: honey and milk are under the tongue. And the smell of your clothes is like the smell of my home.
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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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Art, when it functions like this, becomes a meeting-place of the invisible, the irreducible, the enduring, guts, and honor.
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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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Publicity is the life of this culture – in so far as without publicity capitalism could not survive – and at the same time publicity is its dream.
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The zoo cannot but disappoint.
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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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Nothing fortuitous happens in a child’s world. There are no accidents. Everything is connected with everything else and everything can be explained by everything else. . . . For a young child everything that happens is a necessity.
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Ethics determine choices and actions and suggest difficult priorities.
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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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Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time has become Death triumphant over all.
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Nothing in the nature around us is evil. This needs to be repeated since one of the human ways of talking oneself into inhuman acts is to cite the supposed cruelty of nature.
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All publicity works upon anxiety.
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