The publicity image steals her love of herself as she is, and offers it back to her for the price of the product.
JOHN BERGERAutobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.
More John Berger Quotes
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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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This is not because they are callous or personally inhuman: it is because they live in and accept a society which is incapable of knowing what a human life is worth.
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When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls.
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In the average European oil painting of the nude the principal protagonist is never painted. He is the spectator in front of the picture and he is presumed to be a man.
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This determines not only most relations between men and women but also the relation of women to themselves.
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The existence of pleasure is the first mystery. The existence of pain has prompted far more philosophical speculation.
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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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We who draw do so not only to make something observed visible to others, but also to accompany something invisible to its incalculable destination
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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.
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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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Everything became exchangeable because everything became a commodity.
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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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A man’s presence suggests what he is capable of doing to you or for you.
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Propaganda requires a permanent network of communication so that it can systematically stifle reflection with emotive or utopian slogans. Its pace is usually fast.
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