If everything that existed were continually being photographed, every photograph would become meaningless.
JOHN BERGERIf everything that existed were continually being photographed, every photograph would become meaningless.
More John Berger Quotes
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The power of the glamorous resides in their supposed happiness: the power of the bureaucrat in his supposed authority.
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Without ethics man has no future. This is to say mankind without them cannot be itself.
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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 past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.
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It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open.
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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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A tactic which allows people, as distinct from their elected but often craven governments, to apply a certain pressure on those wielding power in what they, the boycotters, consider to be an unjust or immoral way.
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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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Tracing an imaginary line between a cluster of stars gave them an image and an identity.
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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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What is to happen next will take place within the four walls of the story. And this is possible because the story’s voice makes everything its own.
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A man’s presence suggests what he is capable of doing to you or for you.
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She is meant to imagine herself transformed by the product into an object of envy for others, an envy which will then justify her loving herself.
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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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Ever since the Greek tragedies, artists have, from time to time, asked themselves how they might influence ongoing political events.
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