Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time has become Death triumphant over all.
JOHN BERGERTracing an imaginary line between a cluster of stars gave them an image and an identity.
More John Berger Quotes
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Every authentic poem contributes to the labour of poetry… to bring together what life has separated or violence has torn apart.
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A photograph is a meeting place where the interests of the photographer, the photographed, the viewer and those who are using the photograph are often contradictory.
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In the modern world, in which thousands of people are dying every hour as a consequence of politics, no writing anywhere can begin to be credible unless it is informed by political awareness and principles.
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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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If every event which occurred could be given a name, there would be no need for stories.
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We who draw do so not only to make something observed visible to others, but also to accompany something invisible to its incalculable destination
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Traditional Chinese art looked at the Earth from a Confucian mountain top;
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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 sight of it as an object stimulates the use of it as an object.) Nakedness reveals itself. Nudity is placed on display. To be naked is to be without disguises.
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That we find a crystal or a poppy beautiful means that we are less alone, that we are more deeply inserted into existence than the course of a single life would lead us to believe.
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Ever since the Greek tragedies, artists have, from time to time, asked themselves how they might influence ongoing political events.
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These contradictions both hide and increase the natural ambiguity of the photographic image.
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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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Pleasure and pain need to be considered together; they are inseparable. Yet the space filled by each is perhaps different. Pleasure, defined as a sense of gratification, is essential for nature
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Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.
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