All weddings are similar, but every marriage is different.
JOHN BERGER
Without ethics man has no future. This is to say mankind without them cannot be itself.
More John Berger Quotes
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All weddings are similar, but every marriage is different.
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What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time.
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Every authentic poem contributes to the labor of poetry… to bring together what life has separated or violence has torn apart…
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What is significant, and is so difficult for the urban stranger to understand, is that the two statements are connected by an and not by a but.
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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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The true content of a photograph is invisible, for it derives from a play, not with form, but with time.
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We follow songs in order to be enclosed. We find ourselves inside a message.
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The woman’s sexual passion needs to be minimized, so that the spectator may feel that he has the monopoly on such passion
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This is not because they are callous or personally inhuman: it is because they live in and accept a society which is incapable of knowing what a human life is worth.
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To be naked is to be oneself. To be nude is to be seen naked by others and yet not recognized for oneself. A naked body has to be seen as an object in order to become a nude.
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Every painted image of something is also about the absence of the real thing. All painting is about the presence of absence.
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There’s the artist’s intimacy and truthfulness to himself, but an equal intimacy to the Other [the one drawn].
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Do you know the legend about cicadas? They say they are the souls of poets who cannot keep quiet because, when they were alive, they never wrote the poems they wanted to.
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The strange power of art is sometimes it can show that what people have in common is more urgent than what differentiates them. It seems to me it’s something that theatre can do, but it’s rare; it’s very rare.
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Ethics determine choices and actions and suggest difficult priorities.
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