The century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to them, disappear over the horizon.
JOHN BERGERIt is comparatively easy to achieve a certain unity in a picture by allowing one colour to dominate, or by muting all the colours.
More John Berger Quotes
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I use charcoal a lot. Partly because it has such a fantastic range but also because it is very easy to erase.
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Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.
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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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What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time.
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Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.
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The publicity image steals her love of herself as she is, and offers it back to her for the price of the product.
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To be naked is to be oneself. To be nude is to be seen naked by others and yet not recognised for oneself.
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(The sight of it as an object stimulates the use of it as an object.) Nakedness reveals itself. Nudity is placed on display. To be naked is to be without disguises.
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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 heart of Paris is like nothing so much as the unending interior of a house.
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When he painted a road, the roadmakers were there in his imagination, when he painted the turned earth of a ploughed field, the gesture of the blade turning the earth was included in his own act.
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The true content of a photograph is invisible, for it derives from a play, not with form, but with time.
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Today the discredit of words is very great.
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Compare the cinema with theatre. Both are dramatic arts. Theatre brings actors before a public and every night during the season they re-enact the same drama.
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A man’s presence suggests what he is capable of doing to you or for you.
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