If every event which occurred could be given a name, there would be no need for stories.
JOHN BERGERThose who first invented and then named the constellations were storytellers.
More John Berger Quotes
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The human imagination… has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist practice or philosophy.
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Never again shall a single story be told as though it were the only one.
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At times failure is very necessary for the artist. It reminds him that failure is not the ultimate disaster. And this reminder liberates him from the mean fussing of perfectionism.
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Picasso drawings are like that… the Rembrandts are like that. The artist who most often did that was Van Gogh.
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Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.
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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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If everything that existed were continually being photographed, every photograph would become meaningless.
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All weddings are similar, but every marriage is different.
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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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The relation between what we see and what we know is never settled. Each evening we see the sun set.
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What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time.
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All publicity works upon anxiety.
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Photographs bear witness to a human choice being exercised in a given situation.
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Photography, because it stops the flow of life, is always flirting with death.
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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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