Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion.
JOHN BERGERWe only see what we look at. To look is an act of choice.
More John Berger Quotes
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We follow songs in order to be enclosed. We find ourselves inside a message.
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The camera relieves us of the burden of memory.
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For the Cro-Magnons, space is a metaphysical arena of continually intermittent appearances and disappearances.
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Every authentic poem contributes to the labor of poetry… to bring together what life has separated or violence has torn apart…
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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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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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Whenever he looked he saw the labour of existence; and this labour, recognised as such, was what constituted reality for him. (On Vincent Van Gogh)
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At times failure is very necessary for the artist. It reminds him that failure is not the ultimate disaster. And this reminder liberates him from the mean fussing of perfectionism.
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Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.
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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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You cant draw it for others. You can try, of course, but it doesn’t work. People obeying rules laid down my somebody else is not the same thing as respecting life. And if you want to respect life, you have to draw a line.
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Everything became exchangeable because everything became a commodity.
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The essence of songs is neither vocal nor cerebral but organic.
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These contradictions both hide and increase the natural ambiguity of the photographic image.
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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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