The power of the glamorous resides in their supposed happiness: the power of the bureaucrat in his supposed authority.
JOHN BERGERThe spectator-buyer is meant to envy herself as she will become if she buys the product.
More John Berger Quotes
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What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time.
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The animal has secrets which, unlike the secrets of caves, mountains, seas are specifically addressed to man.
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Without ethics man has no future. This is to say mankind without them cannot be itself.
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The existence of pleasure is the first mystery. The existence of pain has prompted far more philosophical speculation.
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Common-sense is part of the home-made ideology of those who have been deprived of fundamental learning, of those who have been kept ignorant.
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Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.
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My heart born naked was swaddled in lullabies.
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To be naked is to be oneself.
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Photographs bear witness to a human choice being exercised in a given situation.
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Matisse did neither. He clashed his colours together like cymbals and the effect was like a lullaby.
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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.
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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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Every city has a sex and an age which have nothing to do with demography. Rome is feminine. So is Odessa. London is a teenager, an urchin, and, in this, hasn’t changed since the time of Dickens. Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.
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It is comparatively easy to achieve a certain unity in a picture by allowing one colour to dominate, or by muting all the colours.
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Compassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural.
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