Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.
JOHN BERGERParis, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.
More John Berger Quotes
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Nothing fortuitous happens in a child’s world. There are no accidents. Everything is connected with everything else and everything can be explained by everything else. . . . For a young child everything that happens is a necessity.
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Photographs bear witness to a human choice being exercised in a given situation.
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Photography, because it stops the flow of life, is always flirting with death.
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Everything became exchangeable because everything became a commodity.
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In the modern world, in which thousands of people are dying every hour as a consequence of politics, no writing anywhere can begin to be credible unless it is informed by political awareness and principles.
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Protest and anger practically always derives from hope, and the shouting out against injustice is always in the hope of those injustices being somewhat corrected and a little more justice established.
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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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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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Whenever the intensity of looking reaches a certain degree, one becomes aware of an equally intense energy coming towards one through the appearance of whatever it is one is scrutinizing.
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The stars threaded on that line were like events threaded on a narrative. Imagining the constellations did not of course change the stars, nor did it change the black emptiness that surrounds them. What it changed was the way people read the night sky.
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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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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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Yet the first symbols were animals. What distinguished men from animals was born of their relationship with them.
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The surveyor of woman in herself is male: the surveyed female. Thus she turns herself into an object – and most particularly an object of vision: a sight.
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When we suffer anguish we return to early childhood because that is the period in which we first learnt to suffer the experience of total loss.
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