These contradictions both hide and increase the natural ambiguity of the photographic image.
JOHN BERGERPhotography, because it stops the flow of life, is always flirting with death.
More John Berger Quotes
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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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Later alone it wore poems for clothes. Like a shirt I carried on my back the poetry I had read. So I lived for half a century until wordlessly we met. From my shirt on the back of the chair I learn tonight how many years of learning by heart I waited for you.
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It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open.
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It is not usually possible in a poem or a story to make the relationship between particular and universal fully explicit. Those who try to do so end up writing parables.
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To be desired is perhaps the closest anybody in this life can reach to feeling immortal.
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Ethics determine choices and actions and suggest difficult priorities.
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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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The heart of Paris is like nothing so much as the unending interior of a house.
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A cigarette is a breathing space. It makes a parenthesis.
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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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My heart born naked was swaddled in lullabies.
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Unlike any other visual image, a photograph is not a rendering, an imitation or an interpretation of its subject, but actually a trace of it.
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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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Writers who have neither product utopian trash.
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The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.
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