Propaganda requires a permanent network of communication so that it can systematically stifle reflection with emotive or utopian slogans. Its pace is usually fast.
JOHN BERGERParis, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.
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Advertising is not merely an assembly of competing messages; it is a language itself which is always being used to make the same general proposal
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We follow songs in order to be enclosed. We find ourselves inside a message.
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Protest and anger practically always derives from hope, and the shouting out against injustice is always in the hope of those injustices being somewhat corrected and a little more justice established.
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What is saved in the cinema when it achieves art is a spontaneous continuity with all mankind.
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All publicity works upon anxiety.
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Drawing is a way of coming upon the connection between things, just like metaphor in poetry reconnects what has become separated.
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It is seeing which establishes our place in the surrounding world; we explain that world with words, but words can never undo the fact that we are surrounded by it
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I can’t tell you what art does and how it does it, but I know that often 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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A man’s presence suggests what he is capable of doing to you or for you.
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Every authentic poem contributes to the labor of poetry… to bring together what life has separated or violence has torn apart…
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Words are so often used in the opposite sense, as a screen of diversion. It’s the struggle towards truthfulness which is the same whether one is writing a poem, a novel or an argument.
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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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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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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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Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.
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