When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls.
JOHN BERGERGlamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion.
More John Berger Quotes
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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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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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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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For those who are behind the curtain, landmarks are no longer only geographic but also biographical and personal
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The past is the one thing we are not prisoners of. We can do with the past exactly what we wish. What we can’t do is to change its consequences.
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What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time.
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Propaganda requires a permanent network of communication so that it can systematically stifle reflection with emotive or utopian slogans. Its pace is usually fast.
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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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To be naked is to be oneself. To be nude is to be seen naked by others and yet not recognised for oneself.
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Hair is associated with sexual power. With passion.
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History always constitutes the relation between a present and its past. Consequently fear of the present leads to mystification of the past
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The surveyor of woman in herself is male: the surveyed female. Thus she turns herself into an object – and most particularly an object of vision: a sight.
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What any true painting touches is an absence – an absence of which without the painting, we might be unaware. And that would be our loss.
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To be desired is perhaps the closest anybody in this life can reach to feeling immortal.
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[O]ften art has judged the judges, pleaded revenge to the innocent and shown to the future what the past suffered, so that it has never been forgotten.
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