Never again shall a single story be told as though it were the only one.
JOHN BERGERCapitalism survives by forcing the majority, whom it exploits, to define their own interests as narrowly as possible.
More John Berger Quotes
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The true content of a photograph is invisible, for it derives from a play, not with form, but with time.
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Those who first invented and then named the constellations were storytellers.
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If every event which occurred could be given a name, there would be no need for stories.
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Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.
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Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.
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Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time has become Death triumphant over all.
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Ever since the Greek tragedies, artists have, from time to time, asked themselves how they might influence ongoing political events.
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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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If everything that existed were continually being photographed, every photograph would become meaningless.
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I use charcoal a lot. Partly because it has such a fantastic range but also because it is very easy to erase.
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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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These contradictions both hide and increase the natural ambiguity of the photographic image.
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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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Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion.
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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.
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