To be desired is perhaps the closest anybody in this life can reach to feeling immortal.
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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Tracing an imaginary line between a cluster of stars gave them an image and an identity.
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What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time.
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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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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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Picasso drawings are like that… the Rembrandts are like that. The artist who most often did that was Van Gogh.
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The century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to them, disappear over the horizon.
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Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity.
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For those who are behind the curtain, landmarks are no longer only geographic but also biographical and personal
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All publicity works upon anxiety.
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It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open.
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The zoo cannot but disappoint.
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Photography, because it stops the flow of life, is always flirting with death.
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The woman’s sexual passion needs to be minimized, so that the spectator may feel that he has the monopoly on such passion
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To be naked is to be oneself.
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