At times failure is very necessary for the artist. It reminds him that failure is not the ultimate disaster. And this reminder liberates him from the mean fussing of perfectionism.
JOHN BERGERBy contrast, a woman’s presence… defines what can and cannot be done to her.
More John Berger Quotes
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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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What is significant, and is so difficult for the urban stranger to understand, is that the two statements are connected by an and not by a but.
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Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak.
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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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Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion.
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The camera relieves us of the burden of memory.
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These contradictions both hide and increase the natural ambiguity of the photographic image.
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The animal has secrets which, unlike the secrets of caves, mountains, seas are specifically addressed to man.
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A man’s presence suggests what he is capable of doing to you or for you.
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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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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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We only see what we look at. To look is an act of choice.
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For the Cro-Magnons, space is a metaphysical arena of continually intermittent appearances and disappearances.
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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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Tracing an imaginary line between a cluster of stars gave them an image and an identity.
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