The heart of Paris is like nothing so much as the unending interior of a house.
JOHN BERGERIt can happen that a book, unlike its authors, grows younger as the years pass.
More John Berger Quotes
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These contradictions both hide and increase the natural ambiguity of the photographic image.
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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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Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.
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Every painted image of something is also about the absence of the real thing. All painting is about the presence of absence.
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Photographs bear witness to a human choice being exercised in a given situation.
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My heart born naked was swaddled in lullabies.
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If everything that existed were continually being photographed, every photograph would become meaningless.
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Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity.
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For the Cro-Magnons, space is a metaphysical arena of continually intermittent appearances and disappearances.
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Propaganda requires a permanent network of communication so that it can systematically stifle reflection with emotive or utopian slogans. Its pace is usually fast.
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Compassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural.
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Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time has become Death triumphant over all.
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Matisse did neither. He clashed his colours together like cymbals and the effect was like a lullaby.
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Post-modernism has cut off the present from all futures. The daily media add to this by cutting off the past. Which means that critical opinion is often orphaned in the present.
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Art, when it functions like this, becomes a meeting-place of the invisible, the irreducible, the enduring, guts, and honor.
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