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.
More John Berger Quotes
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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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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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Ours is the century of enforced travel of disappearances.
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The extreme proposition on which Giacometti based all his mature work was that no reality… could ever be shared. This is why he believed it impossible for a work to be finished. This is why the content of any work is not the nature of the figure or head portrayed but the incomplete history of him staring at it.
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You cant draw it for others. You can try, of course, but it doesn’t work. People obeying rules laid down my somebody else is not the same thing as respecting life. And if you want to respect life, you have to draw a line.
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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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The spectator-buyer is meant to envy herself as she will become if she buys the product.
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The zoo cannot but disappoint. The public purpose of zoos is to offer visitors the opportunity of looking at animals.
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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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The happiness of being envied is glamour. Being envied is a solitary form of reassurance. It depends precisely upon not sharing your experience with those who envy you.
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The power of the glamorous resides in their supposed happiness: the power of the bureaucrat in his supposed authority.
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Art, when it functions like this, becomes a meeting-place of the invisible, the irreducible, the enduring, guts, and honor.
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All publicity works upon anxiety.
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The human imagination… has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist practice or philosophy.
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It can happen that a book, unlike its authors, grows younger as the years pass.
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