The century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to them, disappear over the horizon.
JOHN BERGERFor the Cro-Magnons, space is a metaphysical arena of continually intermittent appearances and disappearances.
More John Berger Quotes
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(The sight of it as an object stimulates the use of it as an object.) Nakedness reveals itself. Nudity is placed on display. To be naked is to be without disguises.
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This determines not only most relations between men and women but also the relation of women to themselves.
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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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You can plan events, but if they go according to your plan they are not events.
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All creation is in the art of seeing.
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By contrast, a woman’s presence… defines what can and cannot be done to her.
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The camera relieves us of the burden of memory.
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Emigration, forced or chosen, across national frontiers or from village to metropolis, is the quintessential experience of our time.
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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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It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open.
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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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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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Hair is associated with sexual power. With passion.
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Never chain your dogs together with sausages. One must accustom one’s self to be bored.
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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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