Photographs bear witness to a human choice being exercised in a given situation.
JOHN BERGERThis determines not only most relations between men and women but also the relation of women to themselves.
More John Berger Quotes
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I use charcoal a lot. Partly because it has such a fantastic range but also because it is very easy to erase.
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Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.
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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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We who draw do so not only to make something observed visible to others, but also to accompany something invisible to its incalculable destination
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A man’s presence suggests what he is capable of doing to you or for you.
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To be naked is to be oneself.
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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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Traditional Chinese art looked at the Earth from a Confucian mountain top;
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The true content of a photograph is invisible, for it derives from a play, not with form, but with time.
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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 photograph is a result of the photographer’s decision that it is worth recording that this particular event or this particular object has been seen. If everything that existed were continually being photographed, every photograph would become meaningless.
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The happiness of being envied is glamour. Being envied is a solitary form of reassurance. It depends precisely upon not sharing your experience with those who envy you.
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The unsung, impersonal world remains outside, on the other surface of a placenta. All songs, even when their content or rendering is strongly masculine, operate maternally.
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It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open.
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When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls.
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