Quotes from John Berger

I knew all the answers then. Where there are no words, knowledge comes through physical acts and through the space through which those acts are made; by permitting each act the space conferred meaning upon it and no further meaning was necessary.

cehennem kavram? -yan?klar?n verdiÄŸi ac?dan olduÄŸu ölçüde- ateÅŸi ve her ÅŸeyi yutan, kül eden bir ÅŸey olarak görmelerinden doÄŸmuÅŸtur.

Images were first made to conjure up the appearances of something that was absent. Gradually it became evident that an image could outlast what it represented ; it then showed how something or somebody had once looked - and thus by implication how the subject had once been seen by other people. Later still this specific vision of the image-maker was also recognized as part of the record. An image became a record of how X had seen Y.

bakmak bir seçme edimidir.

In this respect images are more precise and richer than literature. To say this is not to deny the expressive or imaginative quality of art, treating it as mere documentary evidence; the more imaginative the work, the more profoundly it allows us to share the artist 's experience of the visible.

been disturbed. This is why Rembrandt or Vermeer or Poussin or Chardin or Goya or Turner had no followers but only superficial imitators.

insan?n bir ?eye dokunmas? demek, kendisini o ?eyle ili?kili bir duruma sokmas? demektir.

Silencio. Apago la linterna frontal. Oscuridad. En la oscuridad, el silencio se hace enciclopédico, condensa todo lo que ha ocurrido en el intervalo entre el entonces y el ahora.

Anybody who passes more than a day in eternity is as old as God could ever be.

The past is not for living in; it is a well of conclusions from which we draw in order to act.

kar??daki tepeyi gördüÄŸümüzü kabul edersek o tepeden goruldugumuzu de kabul etmemiz gerekir. görüÅŸün iki yanl?l??? konuÅŸmalar?n iki yanliligindan daha bask?nd?r.

In it's travels, it's meaning is diversified.

geçmiÅŸ hiçbir zaman olduÄŸu yerde durup yeniden keÅŸfedilmeyi, ayn?yla, olduÄŸu gibi tan?nmay? beklemez. tarih her zaman belli bir ÅŸimdi'yle onun geçmiÅŸi aras?ndaki iliÅŸkiyi kurar. demek ki ÅŸimdi'den korkmak eskiyi bulandirmaya yol aç?yor. geçmiÅŸ içinde yaÅŸanacak bir ÅŸey deÄŸildir.

resimde yap?sal bütünlük, imgenin güçlü olmas?n? saÄŸlar.

But in either case the uniqueness of the original now lies in it being the original of a reproduction. It is no longer what the image shows that strikes one as unique; its first meaning is no longer to be found in what it says, but what it is.

I am includes all that has made me so. It's more than a statement of immediate fact: it is already an explanation, a justification, a demand - it is already biographical.

En cuanto una habitación es habitada por una mujer, su techo se curva. ¿No te has dado cuenta? Si la mujer es desdichada en esa habitación, el techo cae como una manga rota.

Los tangos están hechos por pedazos de vida que han sobrevivido por casualidad

The past is never there waiting to be discovered, to be recognized for exactly what it is. History always constitutes the relation between a present and its past. The past is not for living in; it is a well of conclusions from which we draw in order to act.

Müzik zaman?, ÅŸimdi olduÄŸu gibi,nab?z at??lar?na dönüÅŸtürdüÄŸünde, sonsuzluk aradaki boÅŸluklardad?r

There is no need for God to situate himself in relation to others: he is himself the situation.

Publicity has another important social function. The fact that this function has not been planned as a purpose by those who make and use publicity in no way lessens its significance. Publicity turns consumption into a substitute for democracy. The choice of what one eats (or wears or drives) takes the place of significant political choice. Publicity helps to mask and compensate for all that is undemocratic within society. And it also masks what is happening in the rest of the world.

ANGELICA SAVED BY RUGGIERO 19TH CENTURY A ROMAN FEAST 19TH CENTURY PAN AND SYRINX 18TH CENTURY

The number of lives that enter our own is incalculable.