We know that the earth is turning away from it. Yet the knowledge, the explanation, never quite fits the sight.
JOHN BERGERAll weddings are similar, but every marriage is different.
More John Berger Quotes
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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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When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls.
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Every painted image of something is also about the absence of the real thing. All painting is about the presence of absence.
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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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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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Fanaticism comes from any form of chosen blindness accompanying the pursuit of a single dogma.
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Yet the first symbols were animals. What distinguished men from animals was born of their relationship with them.
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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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One can say of language that it is potentially the only human home, the only dwelling place that cannot be hostile to man.
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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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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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Writers who have neither product utopian trash.
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Those who first invented and then named the constellations were storytellers.
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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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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 BERGER