John Berger Quotes

Unlike any other visual image, a photograph is not a rendering, an imitation or an interpretation of its subject, but actually a trace of it. No painting or drawing, however naturalist, belongs to its subject in the way that a photograph does.

John Berger

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: artist
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: November 5, 1926 - January 2, 2017

Topics

PaintingDrawingWayImageImitation

Here is everything which can lay hold of the eye, ear and imagination - everything which can charm and bewitch the simple and ignorant. I wonder how Luther ever broke the spell.

John Adams

SimpleImaginationEyeWonderCharm

I wasn't a good rule-breaker when I was younger.

John Gallagher, Jr.

GoodYounger

I just love entertaining. I will do anything - stand-up comedy, video games, fencing, internet shorts - I just want to keep being lucky enough to entertain people anyway I can. I try never to limit my art to a medium.

Matthew Gray Gubler

LoveArtPeopleVideo GamesComedy

We live in a world where there are a hell of a lot of new inputs that need to be factored in to your business. It used to be just about your employees and your customers. Now there are all the issues about global warming, about sustainability, about ethics and now about gender and the distribution of wealth.

Stuart Rose

LiveBusinessEthicsWorldHellNew

No matter what name we give it or how we judge it, a candidate's character is central to political reporting because it is central to a citizen's decision in voting.

Roger Mudd

CharacterDecisionNameVotingJudge

My mother started to suffer from multiple sclerosis, but nobody knew what MS was then. My father didn't - and later he suffered a great deal of guilt over that. It was an awful business and very fraught.

Ruth Rendell

FatherMotherBusinessGreatGuilt

When Joan Rivers walked through the curtain on 'The Tonight Show,' nobody in my house was allowed to utter a sound. Her gait was full of pep and purpose and her voice unmatched.

Judy Gold

PurposeVoiceHouseNobodySound

Also, I used to think that one day I might get someone to iron my shirts, but the truth is I really like doing them myself.

David Sedaris

TruthMyselfDayTruth IsThink

The more you seek the uncomfortable, the more you will become comfortable.

Conor McGregor

UncomfortableYouComfortableBecome

The thing is, when you see your old friends, you come face to face with yourself. I run into someone I've known for 40 or 50 years, and they're old. And I suddenly realize I'm old. It comes as an enormous shock to me.

Polly Bergen

Old FriendsYourselfMeFaceSomeone

I pray to God every day that he makes me the biggest superstar, but before that, I ask God to make me a good actor. Being a star is hard, but being an actor is even harder. I want to be both before I am done.

Sushant Singh Rajput

GoodGodDayI AmMeEvery Day

I love to fish almost more than anything.

Peter Heller

LoveFishMoreAnythingAlmostThan

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