Photographs bear witness to a human choice being exercised in a given situation.
JOHN BERGERIt dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open.
More John Berger Quotes
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The century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to them, disappear over the horizon.
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This was once achieved by extensive deprivation. Today in the developed countries it is being achieved by imposing a false standard of what is and what is not desirable.
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What is saved in the cinema when it achieves art is a spontaneous continuity with all mankind.
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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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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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[O]ften 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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Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion.
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You cant draw it for others. You can try, of course, but it doesn’t work. People obeying rules laid down my somebody else is not the same thing as respecting life. And if you want to respect life, you have to draw a line.
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Do you know the legend about cicadas? They say they are the souls of poets who cannot keep quiet because, when they were alive, they never wrote the poems they wanted to.
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When he painted a road, the roadmakers were there in his imagination, when he painted the turned earth of a ploughed field, the gesture of the blade turning the earth was included in his own act.
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Ever since the Greek tragedies, artists have, from time to time, asked themselves how they might influence ongoing political events.
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The contradiction in perspective was that it structured all images of reality to address a single spectator who, unlike God, could only be in one place at a time.
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What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time.
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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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To be naked is to be oneself. To be nude is to be seen naked by others and yet not recognized for oneself. A naked body has to be seen as an object in order to become a nude.
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