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.
JOHN BERGERThe heart of Paris is like nothing so much as the unending interior of a house.
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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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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You can plan events, but if they go according to your plan they are not events.
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Writers who have neither product utopian trash.
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Today the discredit of words is very great.
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Poetry can repair no loss, but it defies the space which separates. And it does this by its continual labor of reassembling what has been scattered.
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Every city has a sex and an age which have nothing to do with demography. Rome is feminine. So is Odessa. London is a teenager, an urchin, and, in this, hasn’t changed since the time of Dickens. Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.
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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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We only see what we look at. To look is an act of choice.
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What is significant, and is so difficult for the urban stranger to understand, is that the two statements are connected by an and not by a but.
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My heart born naked was swaddled in lullabies.
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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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A tactic which allows people, as distinct from their elected but often craven governments, to apply a certain pressure on those wielding power in what they, the boycotters, consider to be an unjust or immoral way.
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We follow songs in order to be enclosed. We find ourselves inside a message.
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The contradiction in perspective was that it structured all images of reality to address a single spectator who, unlike God, could only be in one place at a time.
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