History always constitutes the relation between a present and its past. Consequently fear of the present leads to mystification of the past
JOHN BERGERShe 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.
More John Berger Quotes
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Photographs bear witness to a human choice being exercised in a given situation.
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A drawing is essentially a private work, related only to the artist’s own needs; a ‘finished’ statue or canvas is essentially a public, presented work – related far more directly to the demands of communication.
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Ours is the century of enforced travel of disappearances.
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Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.
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You painted a naked woman because you enjoyed looking at her, put a mirror in her hand and you called the painting “Vanity,” thus morally condemning the woman whose nakedness you had depicted for you own pleasure.
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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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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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When we suffer anguish we return to early childhood because that is the period in which we first learnt to suffer the experience of total loss.
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It is seeing which establishes our place in the surrounding world; we explain that world with words, but words can never undo the fact that we are surrounded by it
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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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When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls.
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A peasant becomes fond of his pig and is glad to salt away its pork.
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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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It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open.
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In the modern world, in which thousands of people are dying every hour as a consequence of politics, no writing anywhere can begin to be credible unless it is informed by political awareness and principles.
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