Photographs bear witness to a human choice being exercised in a given situation.
JOHN BERGERAll creation is in the art of seeing.
More John Berger Quotes
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A man’s presence suggests what he is capable of doing to you or for you.
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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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All creation is in the art of seeing.
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Traditional Chinese art looked at the Earth from a Confucian mountain top;
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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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The existence of pleasure is the first mystery. The existence of pain has prompted far more philosophical speculation.
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Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion.
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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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Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.
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The past is the one thing we are not prisoners of. We can do with the past exactly what we wish. What we can’t do is to change its consequences.
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Common-sense is part of the home-made ideology of those who have been deprived of fundamental learning, of those who have been kept ignorant.
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What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time.
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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 zoo cannot but disappoint. The public purpose of zoos is to offer visitors the opportunity of looking at animals.
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I wanted to write about looking at the world, so it’s more about helping people, or persuading people, to see what is around us; both the marvellous and the terrible.
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