Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.
JOHN BERGERIf the public photograph contributes to a memory, it is to the memory of an unknowable and total stranger.
More John Berger Quotes
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This was once achieved by extensive deprivation. Today in the developed countries it is being achieved by imposing a false standard of what is and what is not desirable.
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Those who first invented and then named the constellations were storytellers.
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Compassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural.
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What any true painting touches is an absence – an absence of which without the painting, we might be unaware. And that would be our loss.
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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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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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Your lips, beloved, are like a honeycomb: honey and milk are under the tongue. And the smell of your clothes is like the smell of my home.
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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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The heart of Paris is like nothing so much as the unending interior of a house.
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All photographs are there to remind us of what we forget. In this – as in other ways – they are the opposite of paintings.
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To be naked is to be oneself. To be nude is to be seen naked by others and yet not recognised for oneself.
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To be desired is perhaps the closest anybody in this life can reach to feeling immortal.
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The zoo cannot but disappoint. The public purpose of zoos is to offer visitors the opportunity of looking at animals.
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Compare the cinema with theatre. Both are dramatic arts. Theatre brings actors before a public and every night during the season they re-enact the same drama.
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The opposite of love is not to hate but to separate. If love and hate have something in common it is because, in both cases, their energy is that of bringing and holding together
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