[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.
JOHN BERGERYet the first symbols were animals. What distinguished men from animals was born of their relationship with them.
More John Berger Quotes
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We follow songs in order to be enclosed. We find ourselves inside a message.
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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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The spectator-buyer is meant to envy herself as she will become if she buys the product.
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What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time.
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Writers who have neither product utopian trash.
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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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As Nelson Mandela has pointed out, boycott is not a principle, it is a tactic depending upon circumstances.
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The surveyor of woman in herself is male: the surveyed female. Thus she turns herself into an object – and most particularly an object of vision: a sight.
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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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Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.
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My heart born naked was swaddled in lullabies.
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The heart of Paris is like nothing so much as the unending interior of a house.
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Ethics determine choices and actions and suggest difficult priorities.
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Traditional Chinese art looked at the Earth from a Confucian mountain top;
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If everything that existed were continually being photographed, every photograph would become meaningless.
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