Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.
JOHN BERGERThe relation between what we see and what we know is never settled. Each evening we see the sun set.
More John Berger Quotes
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The camera relieves us of the burden of memory.
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Photography, because it stops the flow of life, is always flirting with death.
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Post-modernism has cut off the present from all futures. The daily media add to this by cutting off the past. Which means that critical opinion is often orphaned in the present.
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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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Capitalism survives by forcing the majority, whom it exploits, to define their own interests as narrowly as possible.
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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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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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Japanese art looked closely around screens; Italian Renaissance art surveyed conquered nature through the window or door-frame of a palace.
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Between the experience of living a normal life at this moment on the planet and the public narratives being offered to give a sense to that life, the empty space, the gap, is enormous.
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Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.
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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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The spectator-buyer is meant to envy herself as she will become if she buys the product.
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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 camera relieves us of the burden of memory. It surveys us like God, and it surveys for us. Yet no other god has been so cynical, for the camera records in order to forget.
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To be naked is to be oneself.
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