Hair is associated with sexual power. With passion.
JOHN BERGERThe essence of songs is neither vocal nor cerebral but organic.
More John Berger Quotes
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Unlike any other visual image, a photograph is not a rendering, an imitation or an interpretation of its subject, but actually a trace of it.
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Those who first invented and then named the constellations were storytellers.
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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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Paintings record what the painter remembers. Because each one of us forgets different things, a photo more than a painting may change its meaning according to who is looking at it.
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Never chain your dogs together with sausages. One must accustom one’s self to be bored.
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Publicity is the life of this culture – in so far as without publicity capitalism could not survive – and at the same time publicity is its dream.
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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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The envied are like bureaucrats; the more impersonal they are, the greater the illusion (for themselves and for others) of their power.
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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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Photography, because it stops the flow of life, is always flirting with death.
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The century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to them, disappear over the horizon.
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Whenever he looked he saw the labour of existence; and this labour, recognised as such, was what constituted reality for him. (On Vincent Van Gogh)
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I wanted to write about looking at the world, so it’s more about helping people, or persuading people, to see what is around us; both the marvellous and the terrible.
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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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As Nelson Mandela has pointed out, boycott is not a principle, it is a tactic depending upon circumstances.
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