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.
JOHN BERGERAll publicity works upon anxiety.
More John Berger Quotes
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Compassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural.
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The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.
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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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To live and die amongst foreigners may seem less absurd than to live persecuted or tortured by one’s fellow countrymen….
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For those who are behind the curtain, landmarks are no longer only geographic but also biographical and personal
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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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For me, drawing is a lot to do with taking out, with returning to the white of the paper.
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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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The century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to them, disappear over the horizon.
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Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion.
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What distinguished man from animals was the human capacity for symbolic thought, the capacity which was inseparable from the development of language in which words were not mere signals, but signifiers of something other than themselves.
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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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Painting is something that you need to do, if not every day, then certainly most days. It is almost like being a pianist: if you stop, you lose something.
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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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Traditional Chinese art looked at the Earth from a Confucian mountain top;
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