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.
JOHN BERGERWhen we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls.
More John Berger Quotes
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The impulse to paint comes neither from observation nor from the soul (which is probably blind) but from an encounter: the encounter between painter and model: even if the model is a mountain or a shelf of empty medicine bottles.
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History always constitutes the relation between a present and its past. Consequently fear of the present leads to mystification of the past
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To remain innocent may also be. to remain ignorant.
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Without ethics man has no future. This is to say mankind without them cannot be itself.
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There’s the artist’s intimacy and truthfulness to himself, but an equal intimacy to the Other [the one drawn].
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Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.
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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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The publicity image steals her love of herself as she is, and offers it back to her for the price of the product.
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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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Your lips, beloved, are like a honeycomb: honey and milk are under the tongue. And the smell of your clothes is like the smell of my home.
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Ours is the century of enforced travel of disappearances.
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Writers who have neither product utopian trash.
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My heart born naked was swaddled in lullabies.
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Paintings record what the painter remembers. Because each one of us forgets different things, a photo more than a painting may change its meaning according to who is looking at it.
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I can’t tell you what art does and how it does it, but I know that often art has judged the judges, pleaded revenge to the innocent and shown to the future what the past suffered, so that it has never been forgotten.
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