All photographs are there to remind us of what we forget. In this – as in other ways – they are the opposite of paintings.
JOHN BERGERWriters who have neither product utopian trash.
More John Berger Quotes
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Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.
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To remain innocent may also be. to remain ignorant.
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Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion.
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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 zoo cannot but disappoint.
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It is seeing which establishes our place in the surrounding world; we explain that world with words, but words can never undo the fact that we are surrounded by it
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All creation is in the art of seeing.
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Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.
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The impulse to paint comes neither from observation nor from the soul (which is probably blind) but from an encounter: the encounter between painter and model: even if the model is a mountain or a shelf of empty medicine bottles.
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It is comparatively easy to achieve a certain unity in a picture by allowing one colour to dominate, or by muting all the colours.
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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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Common-sense is part of the home-made ideology of those who have been deprived of fundamental learning, of those who have been kept ignorant.
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Photographs bear witness to a human choice being exercised in a given situation.
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You are observed with interest but you do not observe with interest – if you do, you will become less enviable. In this respect the envied are like bureaucrats; the more impersonal they are, the greater the illusion (for themselves and for others) of their power.
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She is meant to imagine herself transformed by the product into an object of envy for others, an envy which will then justify her loving herself.
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