John Berger Quotes About Reality

Quotes about: Reality

• When he painted a road, the roadmakers were there in his imagination, when he painted the turned earth of a ploughed field, the gesture of the blade turning the earth was included in his own act. Whenever he looked he saw the labour of existence; and this labour, recognised as such, was what constituted reality for him. (On Vincent Van Gogh)

  John Berger

  Reality, Imagination, Earth

• The extreme proposition on which Giacometti based all his mature work was that no reality... could ever be shared. This is why he believed it impossible for a work to be finished. This is why the content of any work is not the nature of the figure or head portrayed but the incomplete history of him staring at it.

  John Berger

  Reality, Finishing, Impossible

  John Berger (2014). “Selected Essays of John Berger”, p.158, Bloomsbury Publishing

• Directors like Satyajit Ray, Rossellini, Bresson, Buñuel, Forman, Scorsese, and Spike Lee have used non-professional actors precisely in order that the people we see on the screen may be scarcely more explained than reality itself. Professionals, except fo the greatest, usually play not just the necessary role, but an explanation of the role.

  John Berger

  Reality, Order, Play

  John Berger (2014). “Selected Essays of John Berger”, p.480, Bloomsbury Publishing

• 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 place at a time.

  John Berger

  Reality, Perspective, Addresses

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