Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.
JOHN BERGERA drawing is an autobiographical record of one’s discovery of an event – either seen, remembered or imagined. A ‘finished’ work is an attempt to construct an event in itself.
More John Berger Quotes
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The heart of Paris is like nothing so much as the unending interior of a house.
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Writers who have neither product utopian trash.
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Yet the first symbols were animals. What distinguished men from animals was born of their relationship with them.
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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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Today the discredit of words is very great.
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Matisse did neither. He clashed his colours together like cymbals and the effect was like a lullaby.
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Hair is associated with sexual power. With passion.
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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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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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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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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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The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.
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Pleasure and pain need to be considered together; they are inseparable. Yet the space filled by each is perhaps different. Pleasure, defined as a sense of gratification, is essential for nature
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Everything in life, is a question of drawing a life, John, and you have to decide for yourself where to draw it.
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Photographs bear witness to a human choice being exercised in a given situation.
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