All creation is in the art of seeing.
JOHN BERGERMen look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.
More John Berger Quotes
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Every city has a sex and an age which have nothing to do with demography. Rome is feminine. So is Odessa. London is a teenager, an urchin, and, in this, hasn’t changed since the time of Dickens. Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.
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Nakedness reveals itself. Nudity is placed on display. The nude is condemned to never being naked. Nudity is a form of dress.
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Whenever the intensity of looking reaches a certain degree, one becomes aware of an equally intense energy coming towards one through the appearance of whatever it is one is scrutinizing.
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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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The camera relieves us of the burden of memory.
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Those who first invented and then named the constellations were storytellers.
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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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By contrast, a woman’s presence… defines what can and cannot be done to her.
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The spectator-buyer is meant to envy herself as she will become if she buys the product.
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Without ethics man has no future. This is to say mankind without them cannot be itself.
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A tactic which allows people, as distinct from their elected but often craven governments, to apply a certain pressure on those wielding power in what they, the boycotters, consider to be an unjust or immoral way.
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Photography, because it stops the flow of life, is always flirting with death.
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Every authentic poem contributes to the labor of poetry… to bring together what life has separated or violence has torn apart…
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A cigarette is a breathing space. It makes a parenthesis.
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What is saved in the cinema when it achieves art is a spontaneous continuity with all mankind.
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