John Berger
John Berger
John Peter Bergeris an English art critic, novelist, painter and poet. His novel G. won the 1972 Booker Prize, and his essay on art criticism Ways of Seeing, written as an accompaniment to a BBC series, is often used as a university text...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionArtist
Date of Birth5 November 1926
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Emigration, forced or chosen, across national frontiers or from village to metropolis, is the quintessential experience of our time.
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The publicity image steals her love of herself as she is, and offers it back to her for the price of the product.
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Everything in life, is a question of drawing a life, John, and you have to decide for yourself where to draw it. You cant draw it for others. You can try, of course, but it doesn't work. People obeying rules laid down my somebody else is not the same thing as respecting life. And if you want to respect life, you have to draw a line.
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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
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We only see what we look at. To look is an act of choice.
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To be naked is to be oneself.
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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.
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Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion.
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Fanaticism comes from any form of chosen blindness accompanying the pursuit of a single dogma.
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Drawing is a way of coming upon the connection between things, just like metaphor in poetry reconnects what has become separated.
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The zoo cannot but disappoint.
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To remain innocent may also be. to remain ignorant.
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Until 1954, I'd only ever thought of being a painter, but I earned my money when and where I could. You could say I drifted into writing.
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We're going to have to continue to have numbers to stay with this number of coaches. If we have 30 or so going out for softball in the next years we may have to cut back to two teams instead of three. The numbers will indicate if we continue to chase this thing. 15 members on a team isn't too many when you're playing double headers. We need to do this before we set the schedule. It's too late to start cutting back now.