Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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All photographs are there to remind us of what we forget. In this - as in other ways - they are the opposite of paintings. Paintings record what the painter remembers. Because each one of us forgets different things, a photo more than a painting may change its meaning according to who is looking at it.

John Berger's Popular Quotes

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

We only see what we look at. To look is an act of choice.

- John Berger

To be desired is perhaps the closest anybody in this life can reach to feeling immortal.

- 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. …

- 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…

- John Berger

All creation is in the art of seeing.

- 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

Every painted image of something is also about the absence of the real thing. All painting is about the presence of absence.

- John Berger