We never look at just one thing; we are always looking at the relation between things and ourselves.
JOHN BERGER
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.
More John Berger Quotes
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We never look at just one thing; we are always looking at the relation between things and ourselves.
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The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.
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Paintings record what the painter remembers. Because each one of us forgets different things, a photo more than a painting may change its meaning according to who is looking at it.
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The animal has secrets which, unlike the secrets of caves, mountains, seas are specifically addressed to man.
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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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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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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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Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.
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What any true painting touches is an absence – an absence of which without the painting, we might be unaware. And that would be our loss.
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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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No painting or drawing, however naturalist, belongs to its subject in the way that a photograph does.
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All weddings are similar, but every marriage is different.
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Nothing in the nature around us is evil. This needs to be repeated since one of the human ways of talking oneself into inhuman acts is to cite the supposed cruelty of nature.
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