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I wanted to write about looking at the world, so it’s more about helping people, or persuading people, to see what is around us; both the marvellous and the terrible.

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The heart of Paris is like nothing so much as the unending interior of a house.
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Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak.
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Whenever he looked he saw the labour of existence; and this labour, recognised as such, was what constituted reality for him. (On Vincent Van Gogh)
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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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Japanese art looked closely around screens; Italian Renaissance art surveyed conquered nature through the window or door-frame of a palace.
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I wanted to write about looking at the world, so it’s more about helping people, or persuading people, to see what is around us; both the marvellous and the terrible.
JOHN BERGER

Around Help Look Marvelous People See Terrible Want World Writing
A cigarette is a breathing space. It makes a parenthesis.
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Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.
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Yet the first symbols were animals. What distinguished men from animals was born of their relationship with them.
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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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One can say of language that it is potentially the only human home, the only dwelling place that cannot be hostile to man.
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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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The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.
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A peasant becomes fond of his pig and is glad to salt away its pork.
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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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