Quotes by John Berger

John Berger

‘Fahrenheit 9/11’ is astounding. Not so much as a film – although it is cunning and moving – but as an event.

Events

Film

Moving

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[O]ften 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. . . .

Art

Past

Revenge

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A cigarette is a breathing space. It makes a parenthesis. 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.

Arches

Breathing Space

Cigarette

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A drawing is an autobiographical record of one’s discovery of an event – either seen, remembered or imagined. A ‘finished’ work is an attempt to construct an event in itself.

Discovery

Drawing

Events

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A drawing is essentially a private work, related only to the artist’s own needs; a ‘finished’ statue or canvas is essentially a public, presented work – related far more directly to the demands of communication.

Artist

Communication

Drawing

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A man’s presence suggests what he is capable of doing to you or for you. By contrast, a woman’s presence… defines what can and cannot be done to her.

Contrast

Done

Men

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A peasant becomes fond of his pig and is glad to salt away its pork. What is significant, and is so difficult for the urban stranger to understand, is that the two statements are connected by an and not by a but.

Animal

Pigs

Two

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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. These contradictions both hide and increase the natural ambiguity of the photographic image.

Contradiction

Natural

Photographer

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Advertising is not merely an assembly of competing messages; it is a language itself which is always being used to make the same general proposal

Advertising

Language

Messages

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All creation is in the art of seeing.

Art

Creation

Seeing

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