The relation between what we see and what we know is never settled. Each evening we see the sun set.
JOHN BERGERBy contrast, a woman’s presence… defines what can and cannot be done to her.
More John Berger Quotes
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We only see what we look at. To look is an act of choice.
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Photography, because it stops the flow of life, is always flirting with death.
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All weddings are similar, but every marriage is different.
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We never look at just one thing; we are always looking at the relation between things and ourselves.
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Picasso drawings are like that… the Rembrandts are like that. The artist who most often did that was Van Gogh.
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The heart of Paris is like nothing so much as the unending interior of a house.
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For the Cro-Magnons, space is a metaphysical arena of continually intermittent appearances and disappearances.
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The time of a cigarette is a parenthesis, and if it is shared, you are both in that parenthesis. Its like a proscenium arch for a dialogue.
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Yet nowherein a zoo can a stranger encounter the look of an animal. At the most, the animal’s gaze flickers and passes on. They look sideways. They look blindly beyond.
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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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Compassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural.
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Those who first invented and then named the constellations were storytellers.
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A man’s presence suggests what he is capable of doing to you or for you.
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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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I wanted to write about looking at the world, so it’s more about helping people, or persuading people, to see what is around us; both the marvellous and the terrible.
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