Photographs bear witness to a human choice being exercised in a given situation.
JOHN BERGER
The heart of Paris is like nothing so much as the unending interior of a house.
More John Berger Quotes
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Photographs bear witness to a human choice being exercised in a given situation.
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To live and die amongst foreigners may seem less absurd than to live persecuted or tortured by one’s fellow countrymen….
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Between the experience of living a normal life at this moment on the planet and the public narratives being offered to give a sense to that life, the empty space, the gap, is enormous.
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Without ethics man has no future. This is to say mankind without them cannot be itself.
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The impulse to paint comes neither from observation nor from the soul (which is probably blind) but from an encounter: the encounter between painter and model: even if the model is a mountain or a shelf of empty medicine bottles.
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A photograph is a meeting place where the interests of the photographer, the photographed, the viewer and those who are using the photograph are often contradictory.
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When we suffer anguish we return to early childhood because that is the period in which we first learnt to suffer the experience of total loss.
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Those who first invented and then named the constellations were storytellers.
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Ethics determine choices and actions and suggest difficult priorities.
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In the average European oil painting of the nude the principal protagonist is never painted. He is the spectator in front of the picture and he is presumed to be a man.
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The century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to them, disappear over the horizon.
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For me, drawing is a lot to do with taking out, with returning to the white of the paper.
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Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.
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