Everything became exchangeable because everything became a commodity.
JOHN BERGERIf everything that existed were continually being photographed, every photograph would become meaningless.
More John Berger Quotes
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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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The happiness of being envied is glamour. Being envied is a solitary form of reassurance. It depends precisely upon not sharing your experience with those who envy you.
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Picasso drawings are like that… the Rembrandts are like that. The artist who most often did that was Van Gogh.
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The heart of Paris is like nothing so much as the unending interior of a house.
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Advertising is not merely an assembly of competing messages; it is a language itself which is always being used to make the same general proposal
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Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak.
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The time of a cigarette is a parenthesis, and if it is shared, you are both in that parenthesis. Its like a proscenium arch for a dialogue.
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What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time.
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Ours is the century of enforced travel of disappearances.
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[O]ften art has judged the judges, pleaded revenge to the innocent and shown to the future what the past suffered, so that it has never been forgotten.
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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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Compassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural.
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A cigarette is a breathing space. It makes a parenthesis.
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What do drawings mean to me? I really don’t know. The activity absorbs me. I forget everything else in a way that I don’t think happens with any other activity.
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I can’t tell you what art does and how it does it, but I know that often art has judged the judges, pleaded revenge to the innocent and shown to the future what the past suffered, so that it has never been forgotten.
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