A cigarette is a breathing space. It makes a parenthesis.
JOHN BERGERIf every event which occurred could be given a name, there would be no need for stories.
More John Berger Quotes
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You cant draw it for others. You can try, of course, but it doesn’t work. People obeying rules laid down my somebody else is not the same thing as respecting life. And if you want to respect life, you have to draw a line.
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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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The century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to them, disappear over the horizon.
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The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich.
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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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It is seeing which establishes our place in the surrounding world; we explain that world with words, but words can never undo the fact that we are surrounded by it
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It is not an art of the princes or the bourgeoisie. It is popular and vagrant. In the sky of the cinema people learn what they might have been and discover what belongs to them apart from their single lives.
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The surveyor of woman in herself is male: the surveyed female. Thus she turns herself into an object – and most particularly an object of vision: a sight.
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Photography, because it stops the flow of life, is always flirting with death.
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It can happen that a book, unlike its authors, grows younger as the years pass.
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I use charcoal a lot. Partly because it has such a fantastic range but also because it is very easy to erase.
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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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There’s the artist’s intimacy and truthfulness to himself, but an equal intimacy to the Other [the one drawn].
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The power of the glamorous resides in their supposed happiness: the power of the bureaucrat in his supposed authority.
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Hair is associated with sexual power. With passion.
JOHN BERGER