Art, when it functions like this, becomes a meeting-place of the invisible, the irreducible, the enduring, guts, and honor.
JOHN BERGERToday the discredit of words is very great.
More John Berger Quotes
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To be naked is to be oneself. To be nude is to be seen naked by others and yet not recognized for oneself. A naked body has to be seen as an object in order to become a nude.
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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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[O]ften 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.
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Oil painting did to appearances what capital did to social relations. It reduced everything to the equality of objects.
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Capitalism survives by forcing the majority, whom it exploits, to define their own interests as narrowly as possible.
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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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The zoo cannot but disappoint.
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Every authentic poem contributes to the labour of poetry… to bring together what life has separated or violence has torn apart.
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Japanese art looked closely around screens; Italian Renaissance art surveyed conquered nature through the window or door-frame of a palace.
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A drawing is an autobiographical record of one’s discovery of an event – either seen, remembered or imagined. A ‘finished’ work is an attempt to construct an event in itself.
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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 zoo cannot but disappoint. The public purpose of zoos is to offer visitors the opportunity of looking at animals.
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Publicity is the life of this culture – in so far as without publicity capitalism could not survive – and at the same time publicity is its dream.
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Everything became exchangeable because everything became a commodity.
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The camera relieves us of the burden of memory. It surveys us like God, and it surveys for us. Yet no other god has been so cynical, for the camera records in order to forget.
JOHN BERGER