Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.
JOHN BERGERMen look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.
JOHN BERGERIt dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open.
JOHN BERGERThat we find a crystal or a poppy beautiful means that we are less alone, that we are more deeply inserted into existence than the course of a single life would lead us to believe.
JOHN BERGER(The sight of it as an object stimulates the use of it as an object.) Nakedness reveals itself. Nudity is placed on display. To be naked is to be without disguises.
JOHN BERGERPost-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.
JOHN BERGERPhotographs bear witness to a human choice being exercised in a given situation.
JOHN BERGERWe only see what we look at. To look is an act of choice.
JOHN BERGERNever again shall a single story be told as though it were the only one.
JOHN BERGERPicasso drawings are like that… the Rembrandts are like that. The artist who most often did that was Van Gogh.
JOHN BERGERA cigarette is a breathing space. It makes a parenthesis.
JOHN BERGERThis determines not only most relations between men and women but also the relation of women to themselves.
JOHN BERGERPleasure and pain need to be considered together; they are inseparable. Yet the space filled by each is perhaps different. Pleasure, defined as a sense of gratification, is essential for nature
JOHN BERGERYou can plan events, but if they go according to your plan they are not events.
JOHN BERGERShe is meant to imagine herself transformed by the product into an object of envy for others, an envy which will then justify her loving herself.
JOHN BERGERPaintings record what the painter remembers. Because each one of us forgets different things, a photo more than a painting may change its meaning according to who is looking at it.
JOHN BERGERFor those who are behind the curtain, landmarks are no longer only geographic but also biographical and personal
JOHN BERGER