The publicity image steals her love of herself as she is, and offers it back to her for the price of the product.
JOHN BERGERThe zoo cannot but disappoint. The public purpose of zoos is to offer visitors the opportunity of looking at animals.
More John Berger Quotes
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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 relation between what we see and what we know is never settled. Each evening we see the sun set.
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Fanaticism comes from any form of chosen blindness accompanying the pursuit of a single dogma.
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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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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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What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time.
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We follow songs in order to be enclosed. We find ourselves inside a message.
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The time of a cigarette is a parenthesis, and if it is shared, you are both in that parenthesis. Its like a proscenium arch for a dialogue.
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The opposite of love is not to hate but to separate. If love and hate have something in common it is because, in both cases, their energy is that of bringing and holding together
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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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Ever since the Greek tragedies, artists have, from time to time, asked themselves how they might influence ongoing political events.
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Poetry can repair no loss, but it defies the space which separates. And it does this by its continual labor of reassembling what has been scattered.
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We can become anything. That is why injustice is impossible here. There may be the accident of birth, there is no accident of death. Nothing forces us to remain what we were.
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Whenever the intensity of looking reaches a certain degree, one becomes aware of an equally intense energy coming towards one through the appearance of whatever it is one is scrutinizing.
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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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