Today the discredit of words is very great.
JOHN BERGERYet the first symbols were animals. What distinguished men from animals was born of their relationship with them.
More John Berger Quotes
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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 unsung, impersonal world remains outside, on the other surface of a placenta. All songs, even when their content or rendering is strongly masculine, operate maternally.
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Fanaticism comes from any form of chosen blindness accompanying the pursuit of a single dogma.
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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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Hair is associated with sexual power. With passion.
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Never chain your dogs together with sausages. One must accustom one’s self to be bored.
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This determines not only most relations between men and women but also the relation of women to themselves.
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A drawing is an autobiographical record of one’s discovery of an event – either seen, remembered or imagined. A ‘finished’ work is an attempt to construct an event in itself.
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The camera relieves us of the burden of memory.
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The zoo cannot but disappoint.
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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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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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The happiness of being envied is glamour. Being envied is a solitary form of reassurance. It depends precisely upon not sharing your experience with those who envy you.
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All photographs are there to remind us of what we forget. In this – as in other ways – they are the opposite of paintings.
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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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