Without ethics man has no future. This is to say mankind without them cannot be itself.
JOHN BERGERThe century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to them, disappear over the horizon.
More John Berger Quotes
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Hope is a contraband passed from hand to hand and story to story.
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You can plan events, but if they go according to your plan they are not events.
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Never again shall a single story be told as though it were the only one.
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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 surveyor of woman in herself is male: the surveyed female. Thus she turns herself into an object – and most particularly an object of vision: a sight.
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Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.
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You cant draw it for others. You can try, of course, but it doesn’t work. People obeying rules laid down my somebody else is not the same thing as respecting life. And if you want to respect life, you have to draw a line.
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The zoo cannot but disappoint. The public purpose of zoos is to offer visitors the opportunity of looking at animals.
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Photographs bear witness to a human choice being exercised in a given situation.
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Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.
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The century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to them, disappear over the horizon.
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For the artist, drawing is discovery. And that is not just a slick phrase; it is quite literally true.
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My heart born naked was swaddled in lullabies.
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Art, when it functions like this, becomes a meeting-place of the invisible, the irreducible, the enduring, guts, and honor.
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The camera relieves us of the burden of memory.
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