The animal has secrets which, unlike the secrets of caves, mountains, seas are specifically addressed to man.
JOHN BERGERSeeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak.
More John Berger Quotes
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In the modern world, in which thousands of people are dying every hour as a consequence of politics, no writing anywhere can begin to be credible unless it is informed by political awareness and principles.
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For the artist, drawing is discovery. And that is not just a slick phrase; it is quite literally true.
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The zoo cannot but disappoint. The public purpose of zoos is to offer visitors the opportunity of looking at animals.
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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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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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When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls.
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The essence of songs is neither vocal nor cerebral but organic.
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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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A photograph is a meeting place where the interests of the photographer, the photographed, the viewer and those who are using the photograph are often contradictory.
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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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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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We only see what we look at. To look is an act of choice.
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[O]ften 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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You are observed with interest but you do not observe with interest – if you do, you will become less enviable. In this respect the envied are like bureaucrats; the more impersonal they are, the greater the illusion (for themselves and for others) of their power.
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These contradictions both hide and increase the natural ambiguity of the photographic image.
JOHN BERGER