Art, when it functions like this, becomes a meeting-place of the invisible, the irreducible, the enduring, guts, and honor.
JOHN BERGERParis, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.
More John Berger Quotes
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Nakedness reveals itself. Nudity is placed on display. The nude is condemned to never being naked. Nudity is a form of dress.
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A photograph is a meeting place where the interests of the photographer, the photographed, the viewer and those who are using the photograph are often contradictory.
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Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.
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A man’s presence suggests what he is capable of doing to you or for you.
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Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.
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What distinguished man from animals was the human capacity for symbolic thought, the capacity which was inseparable from the development of language in which words were not mere signals, but signifiers of something other than themselves.
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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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If everything that existed were continually being photographed, every photograph would become meaningless.
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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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The heart of Paris is like nothing so much as the unending interior of a house.
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Publicity is the life of this culture – in so far as without publicity capitalism could not survive – and at the same time publicity is its dream.
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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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We follow songs in order to be enclosed. We find ourselves inside a message.
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There’s the artist’s intimacy and truthfulness to himself, but an equal intimacy to the Other [the one drawn].
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No painting or drawing, however naturalist, belongs to its subject in the way that a photograph does.
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The publicity image steals her love of herself as she is, and offers it back to her for the price of the product.
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The true content of a photograph is invisible, for it derives from a play, not with form, but with time.
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Ethics determine choices and actions and suggest difficult priorities.
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As Nelson Mandela has pointed out, boycott is not a principle, it is a tactic depending upon circumstances.
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Fanaticism comes from any form of chosen blindness accompanying the pursuit of a single dogma.
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Photographs bear witness to a human choice being exercised in a given situation.
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The woman’s sexual passion needs to be minimized, so that the spectator may feel that he has the monopoly on such passion
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It was more than that. It was the period in which we suffered more total losses than in all the rest of our life put together.
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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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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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These contradictions both hide and increase the natural ambiguity of the photographic image.
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