The camera relieves us of the burden of memory.
JOHN BERGERFor me, drawing is a lot to do with taking out, with returning to the white of the paper.
More John Berger Quotes
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Ethics determine choices and actions and suggest difficult priorities.
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The relation between what we see and what we know is never settled. Each evening we see the sun set.
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A cigarette is a breathing space. It makes a parenthesis.
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Everything became exchangeable because everything became a commodity.
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The time of a cigarette is a parenthesis, and if it is shared, you are both in that parenthesis. Its like a proscenium arch for a dialogue.
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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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All publicity works upon anxiety.
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Unlike any other visual image, a photograph is not a rendering, an imitation or an interpretation of its subject, but actually a trace of it.
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The unsung, impersonal world remains outside, on the other surface of a placenta. All songs, even when their content or rendering is strongly masculine, operate maternally.
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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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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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Every authentic poem contributes to the labour of poetry… to bring together what life has separated or violence has torn apart.
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Oil painting did to appearances what capital did to social relations. It reduced everything to the equality of objects.
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All creation is in the art of seeing.
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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
JOHN BERGER






