All creation is in the art of seeing.
JOHN BERGERIt 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.
More John Berger Quotes
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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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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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In the average European oil painting of the nude the principal protagonist is never painted. He is the spectator in front of the picture and he is presumed to be a man.
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Everything became exchangeable because everything became a commodity.
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These contradictions both hide and increase the natural ambiguity of the photographic image.
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Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.
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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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Yet nowherein a zoo can a stranger encounter the look of an animal. At the most, the animal’s gaze flickers and passes on. They look sideways. They look blindly beyond.
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Japanese art looked closely around screens; Italian Renaissance art surveyed conquered nature through the window or door-frame of a palace.
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The animal has secrets which, unlike the secrets of caves, mountains, seas are specifically addressed to man.
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I can’t tell you what art does and how it does it, but I know that often art has judged the judges, pleaded revenge to the innocent and shown to the future what the past suffered, so that it has never been forgotten.
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The opposite of love is not to hate but to separate. If love and hate have something in common it is because, in both cases, their energy is that of bringing and holding together
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Landscapes can be deceptive. Sometimes a landscape seems to be less a setting for the life of its inhabitants than a curtain behind which their struggles, achievements and accidents takes place.
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Tracing an imaginary line between a cluster of stars gave them an image and an identity.
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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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