The woman’s sexual passion needs to be minimized, so that the spectator may feel that he has the monopoly on such passion
JOHN BERGERWe only see what we look at. To look is an act of choice.
More John Berger Quotes
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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
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Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.
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The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.
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Without ethics man has no future. This is to say mankind without them cannot be itself.
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All creation is in the art of seeing.
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I wanted to write about looking at the world, so it’s more about helping people, or persuading people, to see what is around us; both the marvellous and the terrible.
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This is not because they are callous or personally inhuman: it is because they live in and accept a society which is incapable of knowing what a human life is worth.
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The zoo cannot but disappoint.
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Whenever he looked he saw the labour of existence; and this labour, recognised as such, was what constituted reality for him. (On Vincent Van Gogh)
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Landscapes can be deceptive. Sometimes a landscape seems to be less a setting for the life of its inhabitants than a curtain behind which their struggles, achievements and accidents takes place.
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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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Art, when it functions like this, becomes a meeting-place of the invisible, the irreducible, the enduring, guts, and honor.
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The century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to them, disappear over the horizon.
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You painted a naked woman because you enjoyed looking at her, put a mirror in her hand and you called the painting “Vanity,” thus morally condemning the woman whose nakedness you had depicted for you own pleasure.
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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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