[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.
JOHN BERGEROurs is the century of enforced travel of disappearances.
More John Berger Quotes
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We only see what we look at. To look is an act of choice.
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A drawing is an autobiographical record of one’s discovery of an event – either seen, remembered or imagined. A ‘finished’ work is an attempt to construct an event in itself.
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What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time.
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Whenever the intensity of looking reaches a certain degree, one becomes aware of an equally intense energy coming towards one through the appearance of whatever it is one is scrutinizing.
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The existence of pleasure is the first mystery. The existence of pain has prompted far more philosophical speculation.
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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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Ethics determine choices and actions and suggest difficult priorities.
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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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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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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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Everything became exchangeable because everything became a commodity.
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Capitalism survives by forcing the majority, whom it exploits, to define their own interests as narrowly as possible.
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Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak.
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The century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to them, disappear over the horizon.
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Writers who have neither product utopian trash.
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