Everything became exchangeable because everything became a commodity.
JOHN BERGERThe true content of a photograph is invisible, for it derives from a play, not with form, but with time.
More John Berger Quotes
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Common-sense is part of the home-made ideology of those who have been deprived of fundamental learning, of those who have been kept ignorant.
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All publicity works upon anxiety.
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A tactic which allows people, as distinct from their elected but often craven governments, to apply a certain pressure on those wielding power in what they, the boycotters, consider to be an unjust or immoral way.
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To live and die amongst foreigners may seem less absurd than to live persecuted or tortured by one’s fellow countrymen….
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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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One can say of language that it is potentially the only human home, the only dwelling place that cannot be hostile to man.
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Ours is the century of enforced travel of disappearances.
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Later alone it wore poems for clothes. Like a shirt I carried on my back the poetry I had read. So I lived for half a century until wordlessly we met. From my shirt on the back of the chair I learn tonight how many years of learning by heart I waited for you.
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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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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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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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The relation between what we see and what we know is never settled. Each evening we see the sun set.
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(The sight of it as an object stimulates the use of it as an object.) Nakedness reveals itself. Nudity is placed on display. To be naked is to be without disguises.
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It is comparatively easy to achieve a certain unity in a picture by allowing one colour to dominate, or by muting all the colours.
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Yet the first symbols were animals. What distinguished men from animals was born of their relationship with them.
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