Common-sense is part of the home-made ideology of those who have been deprived of fundamental learning, of those who have been kept ignorant.
JOHN BERGERA peasant becomes fond of his pig and is glad to salt away its pork.
More John Berger Quotes
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Pleasure and pain need to be considered together; they are inseparable. Yet the space filled by each is perhaps different. Pleasure, defined as a sense of gratification, is essential for nature
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For those who are behind the curtain, landmarks are no longer only geographic but also biographical and personal
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Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.
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Photography, because it stops the flow of life, is always flirting with death.
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The human imagination… has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist practice or philosophy.
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Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.
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At times failure is very necessary for the artist. It reminds him that failure is not the ultimate disaster. And this reminder liberates him from the mean fussing of perfectionism.
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Whenever the intensity of looking reaches a certain degree, one becomes aware of an equally intense energy coming towards one through the appearance of whatever it is one is scrutinizing.
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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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The power of the glamorous resides in their supposed happiness: the power of the bureaucrat in his supposed authority.
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If everything that existed were continually being photographed, every photograph would become meaningless.
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The happiness of being envied is glamour. Being envied is a solitary form of reassurance. It depends precisely upon not sharing your experience with those who envy you.
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All publicity works upon anxiety.
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What do drawings mean to me? I really don’t know. The activity absorbs me. I forget everything else in a way that I don’t think happens with any other activity.
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The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.
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