Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion.
JOHN BERGERWriters who have neither product utopian trash.
More John Berger Quotes
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Everything in life, is a question of drawing a life, John, and you have to decide for yourself where to draw it.
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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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Photography, because it stops the flow of life, is always flirting with death.
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For me, drawing is a lot to do with taking out, with returning to the white of the paper.
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Deep in the nature of theatre is a sense of ritual. The cinema, by contrast, transports its audience individually, singly, out of the theatre towards the unknown.
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Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.
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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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Picasso drawings are like that… the Rembrandts are like that. The artist who most often did that was Van Gogh.
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The past is the one thing we are not prisoners of. We can do with the past exactly what we wish. What we can’t do is to change its consequences.
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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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Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time has become Death triumphant over all.
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Nothing in the nature around us is evil. This needs to be repeated since one of the human ways of talking oneself into inhuman acts is to cite the supposed cruelty of nature.
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Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity.
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We never look at just one thing; we are always looking at the relation between things and ourselves.
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Everything became exchangeable because everything became a commodity.
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