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The animal has secrets which, unlike the secrets of caves, mountains, seas are specifically addressed to man.

John Berger

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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Everything Meamimgless Object Particular Photograph Recording Result
We follow songs in order to be enclosed. We find ourselves inside a message.
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Enclose Follow Inside Message Order Ourselves Song
You can plan events, but if they go according to your plan they are not events.
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According Event Events Plan Plans
To be desired is perhaps the closest anybody in this life can reach to feeling immortal.
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Anybody Closest Desire Feeling Immortal Life
The heart of Paris is like nothing so much as the unending interior of a house.
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Country Doors Heart House Interior Two Unending
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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Achieve Country Deprivation Desirable Develop False Impose Intensive Standard Today
The zoo cannot but disappoint. The public purpose of zoos is to offer visitors the opportunity of looking at animals.
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Animal Look Offer Opportunity Public Purpose Visitor Zoos
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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Bureaucrat Envied Envy Greater Illusion Power Themselves
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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Anguish Childhood Grief Learn Loss Period Suffer Total
In the average European oil painting of the nude the principal protagonist is never painted. He is the spectator in front of the picture and he is presumed to be a man.
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Average Country Men never Painting Presume Principal Protagonist Rude Spectator
What do drawings mean to me? I really don’t know. The activity absorbs me. I forget everything else in a way that I don’t think happens with any other activity.
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Absorb Activity Draw Else Everything Forget Happen Mean Think Thinking
Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion.
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Common Emotion Envy Exist Glamour Personal Social
When he painted a road, the roadmakers were there in his imagination, when he painted the turned earth of a ploughed field, the gesture of the blade turning the earth was included in his own act.
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Earth Field Gesture Imagination Paint Ploughed Reality Road Roadmaker Turn Warth
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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Capitalism Culture Dream Publicity Same Time
The spectator-buyer is meant to envy herself as she will become if she buys the product.
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Buy Buyer Envy Herself Imagine Meant Product Spectator
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.
JOHN BERGER

Autobiographical Discovery Drawing Event Imagine Record Remembered Seen

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