She is meant to imagine herself transformed by the product into an object of envy for others, an envy which will then justify her loving herself.
JOHN BERGERI can’t tell you what art does and how it does it, but I know that often art has judged the judges, pleaded revenge to the innocent and shown to the future what the past suffered, so that it has never been forgotten.
More John Berger Quotes
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A cigarette is a breathing space. It makes a parenthesis.
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All creation is in the art of seeing.
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Do you know the legend about cicadas? They say they are the souls of poets who cannot keep quiet because, when they were alive, they never wrote the poems they wanted to.
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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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The animal has secrets which, unlike the secrets of caves, mountains, seas are specifically addressed to man.
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To be naked is to be oneself. To be nude is to be seen naked by others and yet not recognised for oneself.
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When we suffer anguish we return to early childhood because that is the period in which we first learnt to suffer the experience of total loss.
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What is to happen next will take place within the four walls of the story. And this is possible because the story’s voice makes everything its own.
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The unsung, impersonal world remains outside, on the other surface of a placenta. All songs, even when their content or rendering is strongly masculine, operate maternally.
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Traditional Chinese art looked at the Earth from a Confucian mountain top;
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Compassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural.
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To be desired is perhaps the closest anybody in this life can reach to feeling immortal.
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Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.
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The strange power of art is sometimes it can show that what people have in common is more urgent than what differentiates them. It seems to me it’s something that theatre can do, but it’s rare; it’s very rare.
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I wanted to write about looking at the world, so it’s more about helping people, or persuading people, to see what is around us; both the marvellous and the terrible.
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