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.
JOHN BERGERA 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.
More John Berger Quotes
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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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All creation is in the art of seeing.
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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 zoo cannot but disappoint.
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Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time has become Death triumphant over all.
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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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If everything that existed were continually being photographed, every photograph would become meaningless.
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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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This determines not only most relations between men and women but also the relation of women to themselves.
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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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Advertising is not merely an assembly of competing messages; it is a language itself which is always being used to make the same general proposal
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The woman’s sexual passion needs to be minimized, so that the spectator may feel that he has the monopoly on such passion
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If every event which occurred could be given a name, there would be no need for stories.
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Publicity is the life of this culture – in so far as without publicity capitalism could not survive – and at the same time publicity is its dream.
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Fanaticism comes from any form of chosen blindness accompanying the pursuit of a single dogma.
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