Without ethics man has no future. This is to say mankind without them cannot be itself.
JOHN BERGERIf everything that existed were continually being photographed, every photograph would become meaningless.
More John Berger Quotes
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We know that the earth is turning away from it. Yet the knowledge, the explanation, never quite fits the sight.
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These contradictions both hide and increase the natural ambiguity of the photographic image.
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To be desired is perhaps the closest anybody in this life can reach to feeling immortal.
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What do drawings mean to me? I really don’t know. The activity absorbs me. I forget everything else in a way that I don’t think happens with any other activity.
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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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Ours is the century of enforced travel of disappearances.
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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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A drawing is an autobiographical record of one’s discovery of an event – either seen, remembered or imagined. A ‘finished’ work is an attempt to construct an event in itself.
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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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To live and die amongst foreigners may seem less absurd than to live persecuted or tortured by one’s fellow countrymen….
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A cigarette is a breathing space. It makes a parenthesis.
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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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The existence of pleasure is the first mystery. The existence of pain has prompted far more philosophical speculation.
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Japanese art looked closely around screens; Italian Renaissance art surveyed conquered nature through the window or door-frame of a palace.
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We only see what we look at. To look is an act of choice.
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