Oil painting did to appearances what capital did to social relations. It reduced everything to the equality of objects.
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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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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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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Every city has a sex and an age which have nothing to do with demography. Rome is feminine. So is Odessa. London is a teenager, an urchin, and, in this, hasn’t changed since the time of Dickens. Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.
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Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak.
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It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open.
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For the Cro-Magnons, space is a metaphysical arena of continually intermittent appearances and disappearances.
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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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That we find a crystal or a poppy beautiful means that we are less alone, that we are more deeply inserted into existence than the course of a single life would lead us to believe.
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If the public photograph contributes to a memory, it is to the memory of an unknowable and total stranger.
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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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The century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to them, disappear over the horizon.
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By contrast, a woman’s presence… defines what can and cannot be done to her.
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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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You can plan events, but if they go according to your plan they are not events.
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Tracing an imaginary line between a cluster of stars gave them an image and an identity.
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