For those who are behind the curtain, landmarks are no longer only geographic but also biographical and personal
JOHN BERGERSeeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak.
More John Berger Quotes
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Oil painting did to appearances what capital did to social relations. It reduced everything to the equality of objects.
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Matisse did neither. He clashed his colours together like cymbals and the effect was like a lullaby.
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A photograph is a result of the photographer’s decision that it is worth recording that this particular event or this particular object has been seen. If everything that existed were continually being photographed, every photograph would become meaningless.
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A cigarette is a breathing space. It makes a parenthesis.
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Photographs bear witness to a human choice being exercised in a given situation.
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When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls.
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That we find a crystal or a poppy beautiful means that we are less alone, that we are more deeply inserted into existence than the course of a single life would lead us to believe.
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At times failure is very necessary for the artist. It reminds him that failure is not the ultimate disaster. And this reminder liberates him from the mean fussing of perfectionism.
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Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion.
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Photography, because it stops the flow of life, is always flirting with death.
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When we suffer anguish we return to early childhood because that is the period in which we first learnt to suffer the experience of total loss.
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A man’s presence suggests what he is capable of doing to you or for you.
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The heart of Paris is like nothing so much as the unending interior of a house.
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Never again shall a single story be told as though it were the only one.
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Nothing in the nature around us is evil. This needs to be repeated since one of the human ways of talking oneself into inhuman acts is to cite the supposed cruelty of nature.
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