Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.
JOHN BERGERPost-modernism has cut off the present from all futures. The daily media add to this by cutting off the past. Which means that critical opinion is often orphaned in the present.
More John Berger Quotes
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Never again shall a single story be told as though it were the only one.
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For me, drawing is a lot to do with taking out, with returning to the white of the paper.
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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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Common-sense is part of the home-made ideology of those who have been deprived of fundamental learning, of those who have been kept ignorant.
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Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.
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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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We never look at just one thing; we are always looking at the relation between things and ourselves.
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Painting is something that you need to do, if not every day, then certainly most days. It is almost like being a pianist: if you stop, you lose something.
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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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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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Matisse did neither. He clashed his colours together like cymbals and the effect was like a lullaby.
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Photographs bear witness to a human choice being exercised in a given situation.
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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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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 century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to them, disappear over the horizon.
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