The spectator-buyer is meant to envy herself as she will become if she buys the product.
JOHN BERGERCommon-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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Nakedness reveals itself. Nudity is placed on display. The nude is condemned to never being naked. Nudity is a form of dress.
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It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open.
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History always constitutes the relation between a present and its past. Consequently fear of the present leads to mystification of the past
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What do drawings mean to me? I really don’t know. The activity absorbs me. I forget everything else in a way that I don’t think happens with any other activity.
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The camera relieves us of the burden of memory. It surveys us like God, and it surveys for us. Yet no other god has been so cynical, for the camera records in order to forget.
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The zoo cannot but disappoint.
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Painting is something that you need to do, if not every day, then certainly most days. It is almost like being a pianist: if you stop, you lose something.
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Photographs bear witness to a human choice being exercised in a given situation.
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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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As Nelson Mandela has pointed out, boycott is not a principle, it is a tactic depending upon circumstances.
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Never again shall a single story be told as though it were the only one.
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Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion.
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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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Ethics determine choices and actions and suggest difficult priorities.
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The camera relieves us of the burden of memory.
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