If every event which occurred could be given a name, there would be no need for stories.
JOHN BERGERA man’s presence suggests what he is capable of doing to you or for you.
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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This is not because they are callous or personally inhuman: it is because they live in and accept a society which is incapable of knowing what a human life is worth.
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The spectator-buyer is meant to envy herself as she will become if she buys the product.
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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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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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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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The camera relieves us of the burden of memory.
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The time of a cigarette is a parenthesis, and if it is shared, you are both in that parenthesis. Its like a proscenium arch for a dialogue.
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Today the discredit of words is very great.
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My heart born naked was swaddled in lullabies.
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The essence of songs is neither vocal nor cerebral but organic.
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Everything in life, is a question of drawing a life, John, and you have to decide for yourself where to draw it.
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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 extreme proposition on which Giacometti based all his mature work was that no reality… could ever be shared. This is why he believed it impossible for a work to be finished. This is why the content of any work is not the nature of the figure or head portrayed but the incomplete history of him staring at it.
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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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