It can happen that a book, unlike its authors, grows younger as the years pass.
JOHN BERGERParis, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.
More John Berger Quotes
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You can plan events, but if they go according to your plan they are not events.
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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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But toemigrate is always to dismantle the centre of the world, and so to move into a lost, disoriented one of fragments.
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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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We only see what we look at. To look is an act of choice.
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To be desired is perhaps the closest anybody in this life can reach to feeling immortal.
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A photograph is a result of the photographer’s decision that it is worth recording that this particular event or this particular object has been seen. If everything that existed were continually being photographed, every photograph would become meaningless.
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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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Capitalism survives by forcing the majority, whom it exploits, to define their own interests as narrowly as possible.
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It is not an art of the princes or the bourgeoisie. It is popular and vagrant. In the sky of the cinema people learn what they might have been and discover what belongs to them apart from their single lives.
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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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Writers who have neither product utopian trash.
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Post-modernism has cut off the present from all futures. The daily media add to this by cutting off the past. Which means that critical opinion is often orphaned in the present.
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Unlike any other visual image, a photograph is not a rendering, an imitation or an interpretation of its subject, but actually a trace of it.
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Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion.
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