Every painted image of something is also about the absence of the real thing. All painting is about the presence of absence.
You can plan events, but if they go according to your plan they are not events. - John Berger
You can plan events, but if they go according to your plan they are not events.
- John Berger
The camera relieves us of the burden of memory. - John Berger
The camera relieves us of the burden of memory.
We only see what we look at. To look is an act of choice. - John Berger
We only see what we look at. To look is an act of choice.
To be desired is perhaps the closest anybody in this life can reach to feeling immortal. - John Berger
To be desired is perhaps the closest anybody in this life can reach to feeling immortal.
Photographs bear witness to a human choice being exercised in a given situation. A photograph is a result of the photographer's decision that it is w… - John Berger
Photographs bear witness to a human choice being exercised in a given situation. A photograph is a result of the photographer's decision that it is w…
The relation between what we see and what we know is never settled. Each evening we see the sun set. We know that the earth is turning away from it. … - John Berger
The relation between what we see and what we know is never settled. Each evening we see the sun set. We know that the earth is turning away from it. …
All creation is in the art of seeing. - John Berger
All creation is in the art of seeing.
Every painted image of something is also about the absence of the real thing. All painting is about the presence of absence. - John Berger
The contradiction in perspective was that it structured all images of reality to address a single spectator who, unlike God, could only be in one pla… - John Berger
The contradiction in perspective was that it structured all images of reality to address a single spectator who, unlike God, could only be in one pla…
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