The envied are like bureaucrats; the more impersonal they are, the greater the illusion (for themselves and for others) of their power.
JOHN BERGERWhat is saved in the cinema when it achieves art is a spontaneous continuity with all mankind.
More John Berger Quotes
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Hair is associated with sexual power. With passion.
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If everything that existed were continually being photographed, every photograph would become meaningless.
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All publicity works upon anxiety.
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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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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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For me, drawing is a lot to do with taking out, with returning to the white of the paper.
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Protest and anger practically always derives from hope, and the shouting out against injustice is always in the hope of those injustices being somewhat corrected and a little more justice established.
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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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Picasso drawings are like that… the Rembrandts are like that. The artist who most often did that was Van Gogh.
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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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The heart of Paris is like nothing so much as the unending interior of a house.
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This was once achieved by extensive deprivation. Today in the developed countries it is being achieved by imposing a false standard of what is and what is not desirable.
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To be naked is to be oneself. To be nude is to be seen naked by others and yet not recognised for oneself.
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The essence of songs is neither vocal nor cerebral but organic.
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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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