We know that the earth is turning away from it. Yet the knowledge, the explanation, never quite fits the sight.
JOHN BERGERAdvertising is not merely an assembly of competing messages; it is a language itself which is always being used to make the same general proposal
More John Berger Quotes
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Ethics determine choices and actions and suggest difficult priorities.
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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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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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Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion.
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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)
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Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.
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A photograph is a result of the photographer’s decision that it is worth recording that this particular event or this particular object has been seen. If everything that existed were continually being photographed, every photograph would become meaningless.
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Deep in the nature of theatre is a sense of ritual. The cinema, by contrast, transports its audience individually, singly, out of the theatre towards the unknown.
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Landscapes can be deceptive. Sometimes a landscape seems to be less a setting for the life of its inhabitants than a curtain behind which their struggles, achievements and accidents takes place.
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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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A man’s presence suggests what he is capable of doing to you or for you.
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All publicity works upon anxiety.
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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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For the artist, drawing is discovery. And that is not just a slick phrase; it is quite literally true.
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Nothing fortuitous happens in a child’s world. There are no accidents. Everything is connected with everything else and everything can be explained by everything else. . . . For a young child everything that happens is a necessity.
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