I wanted to write about looking at the world, so it’s more about helping people, or persuading people, to see what is around us; both the marvellous and the terrible.
JOHN BERGERThe century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to them, disappear over the horizon.
More John Berger Quotes
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We never look at just one thing; we are always looking at the relation between things and ourselves.
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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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The true content of a photograph is invisible, for it derives from a play, not with form, but with time.
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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 existence of pleasure is the first mystery. The existence of pain has prompted far more philosophical speculation.
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The woman’s sexual passion needs to be minimized, so that the spectator may feel that he has the monopoly on such passion
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To be naked is to be oneself. To be nude is to be seen naked by others and yet not recognised for oneself.
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Photographs bear witness to a human choice being exercised in a given situation.
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Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.
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Painting is something that you need to do, if not every day, then certainly most days. It is almost like being a pianist: if you stop, you lose something.
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The surveyor of woman in herself is male: the surveyed female. Thus she turns herself into an object – and most particularly an object of vision: a sight.
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Photography, because it stops the flow of life, is always flirting with death.
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A man’s presence suggests what he is capable of doing to you or for you.
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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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You can plan events, but if they go according to your plan they are not events.
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