The true content of a photograph is invisible, for it derives from a play, not with form, but with time.
JOHN BERGERAutobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.
More John Berger Quotes
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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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Propaganda requires a permanent network of communication so that it can systematically stifle reflection with emotive or utopian slogans. Its pace is usually fast.
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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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Photography, because it stops the flow of life, is always flirting with death.
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You can plan events, but if they go according to your plan they are not events.
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Nothing fortuitous happens in a child’s world. There are no accidents. Everything is connected with everything else and everything can be explained by everything else. . . . For a young child everything that happens is a necessity.
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What do drawings mean to me? I really don’t know. The activity absorbs me. I forget everything else in a way that I don’t think happens with any other activity.
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The publicity image steals her love of herself as she is, and offers it back to her for the price of the product.
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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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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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The spectator-buyer is meant to envy herself as she will become if she buys the product.
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Traditional Chinese art looked at the Earth from a Confucian mountain top;
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Poetry can repair no loss, but it defies the space which separates. And it does this by its continual labor of reassembling what has been scattered.
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Writers who have neither product utopian trash.
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The heart of Paris is like nothing so much as the unending interior of a house.
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