To be naked is to be oneself.
JOHN BERGERPhotographs bear witness to a human choice being exercised in a given situation.
More John Berger Quotes
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Tracing an imaginary line between a cluster of stars gave them an image and an identity.
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Everything in life, is a question of drawing a life, John, and you have to decide for yourself where to draw it.
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If everything that existed were continually being photographed, every photograph would become meaningless.
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Every painted image of something is also about the absence of the real thing. All painting is about the presence of absence.
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This determines not only most relations between men and women but also the relation of women to themselves.
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Words are so often used in the opposite sense, as a screen of diversion. It’s the struggle towards truthfulness which is the same whether one is writing a poem, a novel or an argument.
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Every authentic poem contributes to the labor of poetry… to bring together what life has separated or violence has torn apart…
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The human imagination… has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist practice or philosophy.
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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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To live and die amongst foreigners may seem less absurd than to live persecuted or tortured by one’s fellow countrymen….
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The unsung, impersonal world remains outside, on the other surface of a placenta. All songs, even when their content or rendering is strongly masculine, operate maternally.
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What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time.
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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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But toemigrate is always to dismantle the centre of the world, and so to move into a lost, disoriented one of fragments.
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