Yet nowherein a zoo can a stranger encounter the look of an animal. At the most, the animal’s gaze flickers and passes on. They look sideways. They look blindly beyond.
JOHN BERGERThis was once achieved by extensive deprivation. Today in the developed countries it is being achieved by imposing a false standard of what is and what is not desirable.
More John Berger Quotes
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A photograph is a meeting place where the interests of the photographer, the photographed, the viewer and those who are using the photograph are often contradictory.
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Never again shall a single story be told as though it were the only one.
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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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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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What is to happen next will take place within the four walls of the story. And this is possible because the story’s voice makes everything its own.
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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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To be desired is perhaps the closest anybody in this life can reach to feeling immortal.
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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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When he painted a road, the roadmakers were there in his imagination, when he painted the turned earth of a ploughed field, the gesture of the blade turning the earth was included in his own act.
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The publicity image steals her love of herself as she is, and offers it back to her for the price of the product.
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Everything became exchangeable because everything became a commodity.
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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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What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time.
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All weddings are similar, but every marriage is different.
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