As Nelson Mandela has pointed out, boycott is not a principle, it is a tactic depending upon circumstances.
JOHN BERGERA photograph is a meeting place where the interests of the photographer, the photographed, the viewer and those who are using the photograph are often contradictory.
More John Berger Quotes
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The existence of pleasure is the first mystery. The existence of pain has prompted far more philosophical speculation.
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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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Ever since the Greek tragedies, artists have, from time to time, asked themselves how they might influence ongoing political events.
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Everything became exchangeable because everything became a commodity.
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Fanaticism comes from any form of chosen blindness accompanying the pursuit of a single dogma.
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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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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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All publicity works upon anxiety.
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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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To remain innocent may also be. to remain ignorant.
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We follow songs in order to be enclosed. We find ourselves inside a message.
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Every authentic poem contributes to the labour of poetry… to bring together what life has separated or violence has torn apart.
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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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Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion.
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If everything that existed were continually being photographed, every photograph would become meaningless.
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