Landscapes can be deceptive. Sometimes a landscape seems to be less a setting for the life of its inhabitants than a curtain behind which their struggles, achievements and accidents takes place.
JOHN BERGERGlamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion.
More John Berger Quotes
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The human imagination… has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist practice or philosophy.
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To be desired is perhaps the closest anybody in this life can reach to feeling immortal.
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Yet the first symbols were animals. What distinguished men from animals was born of their relationship with them.
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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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Those who first invented and then named the constellations were storytellers.
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She is meant to imagine herself transformed by the product into an object of envy for others, an envy which will then justify her loving herself.
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What is saved in the cinema when it achieves art is a spontaneous continuity with all mankind.
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At times failure is very necessary for the artist. It reminds him that failure is not the ultimate disaster. And this reminder liberates him from the mean fussing of perfectionism.
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Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity.
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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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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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A peasant becomes fond of his pig and is glad to salt away its pork.
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Everything became exchangeable because everything became a commodity.
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To live and die amongst foreigners may seem less absurd than to live persecuted or tortured by one’s fellow countrymen….
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The strange power of art is sometimes it can show that what people have in common is more urgent than what differentiates them. It seems to me it’s something that theatre can do, but it’s rare; it’s very rare.
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