If every event which occurred could be given a name, there would be no need for stories.
JOHN BERGERThe 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.
More John Berger Quotes
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I can’t tell you what art does and how it does it, but I know that often art has judged the judges, pleaded revenge to the innocent and shown to the future what the past suffered, so that it has never been forgotten.
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Drawing is a way of coming upon the connection between things, just like metaphor in poetry reconnects what has become separated.
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Everything became exchangeable because everything became a commodity.
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Yet nowherein a zoo can a stranger encounter the look of an animal. At the most, the animal’s gaze flickers and passes on. They look sideways. They look blindly beyond.
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Fanaticism comes from any form of chosen blindness accompanying the pursuit of a single dogma.
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Never chain your dogs together with sausages. One must accustom one’s self to be bored.
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The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.
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Publicity is the life of this culture – in so far as without publicity capitalism could not survive – and at the same time publicity is its dream.
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All weddings are similar, but every marriage is different.
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Those who first invented and then named the constellations were storytellers.
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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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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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We who draw do so not only to make something observed visible to others, but also to accompany something invisible to its incalculable destination
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It is not an art of the princes or the bourgeoisie. It is popular and vagrant. In the sky of the cinema people learn what they might have been and discover what belongs to them apart from their single lives.
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If everything that existed were continually being photographed, every photograph would become meaningless.
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