As Nelson Mandela has pointed out, boycott is not a principle, it is a tactic depending upon circumstances.
JOHN BERGERThe true content of a photograph is invisible, for it derives from a play, not with form, but with time.
More John Berger Quotes
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Unlike any other visual image, a photograph is not a rendering, an imitation or an interpretation of its subject, but actually a trace of it.
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History always constitutes the relation between a present and its past. Consequently fear of the present leads to mystification of the past
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Every authentic poem contributes to the labor of poetry… to bring together what life has separated or violence has torn apart…
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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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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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Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.
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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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For me, drawing is a lot to do with taking out, with returning to the white of the paper.
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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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Yet nowherein a zoo can a stranger encounter the look of an animal. At the most, the animal’s gaze flickers and passes on. They look sideways. They look blindly beyond.
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The impulse to paint comes neither from observation nor from the soul (which is probably blind) but from an encounter: the encounter between painter and model: even if the model is a mountain or a shelf of empty medicine bottles.
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If everything that existed were continually being photographed, every photograph would become meaningless.
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Deep in the nature of theatre is a sense of ritual. The cinema, by contrast, transports its audience individually, singly, out of the theatre towards the unknown.
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The camera relieves us of the burden of memory. It surveys us like God, and it surveys for us. Yet no other god has been so cynical, for the camera records in order to forget.
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By contrast, a woman’s presence… defines what can and cannot be done to her.
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