A man’s presence suggests what he is capable of doing to you or for you.
JOHN BERGERBy contrast, a woman’s presence… defines what can and cannot be done to her.
More John Berger Quotes
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It is comparatively easy to achieve a certain unity in a picture by allowing one colour to dominate, or by muting all the colours.
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You painted a naked woman because you enjoyed looking at her, put a mirror in her hand and you called the painting “Vanity,” thus morally condemning the woman whose nakedness you had depicted for you own pleasure.
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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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It was more than that. It was the period in which we suffered more total losses than in all the rest of our life put together.
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My heart born naked was swaddled in lullabies.
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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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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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To be naked is to be oneself. To be nude is to be seen naked by others and yet not recognised for oneself.
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What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time.
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We who draw do so not only to make something observed visible to others, but also to accompany something invisible to its incalculable destination
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All photographs are there to remind us of what we forget. In this – as in other ways – they are the opposite of paintings.
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For the Cro-Magnons, space is a metaphysical arena of continually intermittent appearances and disappearances.
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Photography, because it stops the flow of life, is always flirting with death.
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The human imagination… has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist practice or philosophy.
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The opposite of love is not to hate but to separate. If love and hate have something in common it is because, in both cases, their energy is that of bringing and holding together
JOHN BERGER






