To remain innocent may also be. to remain ignorant.
JOHN BERGERBuildings become furniture, courtyards become carpets and arrases, the streets are like galleries, the boulevards conservatories. It is a house, one or two centuries old, rich, bourgeois, distinguished. The only way of going out, or shutting the door behind you, is to leave the centre.
More John Berger Quotes
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For me, drawing is a lot to do with taking out, with returning to the white of the paper.
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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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It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open.
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It was more than that. It was the period in which we suffered more total losses than in all the rest of our life put together.
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The camera relieves us of the burden of memory.
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The spectator-buyer is meant to envy herself as she will become if she buys the product.
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Paintings record what the painter remembers. Because each one of us forgets different things, a photo more than a painting may change its meaning according to who is looking at it.
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Without ethics man has no future. This is to say mankind without them cannot be itself.
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Post-modernism has cut off the present from all futures. The daily media add to this by cutting off the past. Which means that critical opinion is often orphaned in the present.
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Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.
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What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time.
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Everything became exchangeable because everything became a commodity.
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Photography, because it stops the flow of life, is always flirting with death.
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These contradictions both hide and increase the natural ambiguity of the photographic image.
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Oil painting did to appearances what capital did to social relations. It reduced everything to the equality of objects.
JOHN BERGER