We follow songs in order to be enclosed. We find ourselves inside a message.
JOHN BERGER
For the Cro-Magnons, space is a metaphysical arena of continually intermittent appearances and disappearances.
More John Berger Quotes
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If everything that existed were continually being photographed, every photograph would become meaningless.
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Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak.
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All creation is in the art of seeing.
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The power of the glamorous resides in their supposed happiness: the power of the bureaucrat in his supposed authority.
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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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To be desired is perhaps the closest anybody in this life can reach to feeling immortal.
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Everything became exchangeable because everything became a commodity.
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Whenever the intensity of looking reaches a certain degree, one becomes aware of an equally intense energy coming towards one through the appearance of whatever it is one is scrutinizing.
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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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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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If the public photograph contributes to a memory, it is to the memory of an unknowable and total stranger.
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Traditional Chinese art looked at the Earth from a Confucian mountain top;
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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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