Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.
JOHN BERGERYet nowherein a zoo can a stranger encounter the look of an animal. At the most, the animal’s gaze flickers and passes on. They look sideways. They look blindly beyond.
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Emigration, forced or chosen, across national frontiers or from village to metropolis, is the quintessential experience of our time.
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Compassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural.
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Deep in the nature of theatre is a sense of ritual. The cinema, by contrast, transports its audience individually, singly, out of the theatre towards the unknown.
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What is significant, and is so difficult for the urban stranger to understand, is that the two statements are connected by an and not by a but.
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A man’s presence suggests what he is capable of doing to you or for you.
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Yet the first symbols were animals. What distinguished men from animals was born of their relationship with them.
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Capitalism survives by forcing the majority, whom it exploits, to define their own interests as narrowly as possible.
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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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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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A photograph is a result of the photographer’s decision that it is worth recording that this particular event or this particular object has been seen. If everything that existed were continually being photographed, every photograph would become meaningless.
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To remain innocent may also be. to remain ignorant.
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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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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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All creation is in the art of seeing.
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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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