Propaganda requires a permanent network of communication so that it can systematically stifle reflection with emotive or utopian slogans. Its pace is usually fast.
JOHN BERGERIt is comparatively easy to achieve a certain unity in a picture by allowing one colour to dominate, or by muting all the colours.
More John Berger Quotes
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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 spectator-buyer is meant to envy herself as she will become if she buys the product.
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Hair is associated with sexual power. With passion.
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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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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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One can say of language that it is potentially the only human home, the only dwelling place that cannot be hostile to man.
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Compare the cinema with theatre. Both are dramatic arts. Theatre brings actors before a public and every night during the season they re-enact the same drama.
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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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In the average European oil painting of the nude the principal protagonist is never painted. He is the spectator in front of the picture and he is presumed to be a man.
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Art, when it functions like this, becomes a meeting-place of the invisible, the irreducible, the enduring, guts, and honor.
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The human imagination… has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist practice or philosophy.
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This is not because they are callous or personally inhuman: it is because they live in and accept a society which is incapable of knowing what a human life is worth.
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You are observed with interest but you do not observe with interest – if you do, you will become less enviable. In this respect the envied are like bureaucrats; the more impersonal they are, the greater the illusion (for themselves and for others) of their power.
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It is not usually possible in a poem or a story to make the relationship between particular and universal fully explicit. Those who try to do so end up writing parables.
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Advertising is not merely an assembly of competing messages; it is a language itself which is always being used to make the same general proposal
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