Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion.
JOHN BERGERTo be desired is perhaps the closest anybody in this life can reach to feeling immortal.
More John Berger Quotes
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This 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.
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Buildings become furniture, courtyards become carpets and arrases, the streets are like galleries, the boulevards conservatories. It is a house, one or two centuries old, rich, bourgeois, distinguished. The only way of going out, or shutting the door behind you, is to leave the centre.
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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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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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We never look at just one thing; we are always looking at the relation between things and ourselves.
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It is not an art of the princes or the bourgeoisie. It is popular and vagrant. In the sky of the cinema people learn what they might have been and discover what belongs to them apart from their single lives.
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Without ethics man has no future. This is to say mankind without them cannot be itself.
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A man’s presence suggests what he is capable of doing to you or for you.
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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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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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If everything that existed were continually being photographed, every photograph would become meaningless.
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Matisse did neither. He clashed his colours together like cymbals and the effect was like a lullaby.
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The zoo cannot but disappoint. The public purpose of zoos is to offer visitors the opportunity of looking at animals.
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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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Compassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural.
JOHN BERGER






