Painting is something that you need to do, if not every day, then certainly most days. It is almost like being a pianist: if you stop, you lose something.
JOHN BERGERWhen we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls.
More John Berger Quotes
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The heart of Paris is like nothing so much as the unending interior of a house.
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Landscapes can be deceptive. Sometimes a landscape seems to be less a setting for the life of its inhabitants than a curtain behind which their struggles, achievements and accidents takes place.
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A photograph is a result of the photographer’s decision that it is worth recording that this particular event or this particular object has been seen. If everything that existed were continually being photographed, every photograph would become meaningless.
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(The sight of it as an object stimulates the use of it as an object.) Nakedness reveals itself. Nudity is placed on display. To be naked is to be without disguises.
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Drawing is a way of coming upon the connection between things, just like metaphor in poetry reconnects what has become separated.
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We follow songs in order to be enclosed. We find ourselves inside a message.
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It is not an art of the princes or the bourgeoisie. It is popular and vagrant. In the sky of the cinema people learn what they might have been and discover what belongs to them apart from their single lives.
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History always constitutes the relation between a present and its past. Consequently fear of the present leads to mystification of the past
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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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The unsung, impersonal world remains outside, on the other surface of a placenta. All songs, even when their content or rendering is strongly masculine, operate maternally.
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Everything became exchangeable because everything became a commodity.
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She is meant to imagine herself transformed by the product into an object of envy for others, an envy which will then justify her loving herself.
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The publicity image steals her love of herself as she is, and offers it back to her for the price of the product.
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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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Ethics determine choices and actions and suggest difficult priorities.
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