Without ethics man has no future. This is to say mankind without them cannot be itself.
JOHN BERGERNo painting or drawing, however naturalist, belongs to its subject in the way that a photograph does.
More John Berger Quotes
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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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This was once achieved by extensive deprivation. Today in the developed countries it is being achieved by imposing a false standard of what is and what is not desirable.
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Ethics determine choices and actions and suggest difficult priorities.
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Photography, because it stops the flow of life, is always flirting with death.
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What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time.
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The spectator-buyer is meant to envy herself as she will become if she buys the product.
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The contradiction in perspective was that it structured all images of reality to address a single spectator who, unlike God, could only be in one place at a time.
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Words are so often used in the opposite sense, as a screen of diversion. It’s the struggle towards truthfulness which is the same whether one is writing a poem, a novel or an argument.
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Today the discredit of words is very great.
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Picasso drawings are like that… the Rembrandts are like that. The artist who most often did that was Van Gogh.
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Writers who have neither product utopian trash.
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Buildings become furniture, courtyards become carpets and arrases, the streets are like galleries, the boulevards conservatories. It is a house, one or two centuries old, rich, bourgeois, distinguished. The only way of going out, or shutting the door behind you, is to leave the centre.
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Painting is something that you need to do, if not every day, then certainly most days. It is almost like being a pianist: if you stop, you lose something.
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Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.
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Hair is associated with sexual power. With passion.
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