Never again shall a single story be told as though it were the only one.
JOHN BERGERYou can plan events, but if they go according to your plan they are not events.
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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Hair is associated with sexual power. With passion.
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For the Cro-Magnons, space is a metaphysical arena of continually intermittent appearances and disappearances.
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The zoo cannot but disappoint. The public purpose of zoos is to offer visitors the opportunity of looking at animals.
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The true content of a photograph is invisible, for it derives from a play, not with form, but with time.
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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.
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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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By contrast, a woman’s presence… defines what can and cannot be done to her.
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You are observed with interest but you do not observe with interest – if you do, you will become less enviable. In this respect the envied are like bureaucrats; the more impersonal they are, the greater the illusion (for themselves and for others) of their power.
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Oil painting did to appearances what capital did to social relations. It reduced everything to the equality of objects.
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But toemigrate is always to dismantle the centre of the world, and so to move into a lost, disoriented one of fragments.
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We know that the earth is turning away from it. Yet the knowledge, the explanation, never quite fits the sight.
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Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.
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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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We only see what we look at. To look is an act of choice.
JOHN BERGER