Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion.
JOHN BERGERYou can plan events, but if they go according to your plan they are not events.
More John Berger Quotes
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Deep in the nature of theatre is a sense of ritual. The cinema, by contrast, transports its audience individually, singly, out of the theatre towards the unknown.
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It is not usually possible in a poem or a story to make the relationship between particular and universal fully explicit. Those who try to do so end up writing parables.
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For me, drawing is a lot to do with taking out, with returning to the white of the paper.
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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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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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The woman’s sexual passion needs to be minimized, so that the spectator may feel that he has the monopoly on such passion
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Whenever the intensity of looking reaches a certain degree, one becomes aware of an equally intense energy coming towards one through the appearance of whatever it is one is scrutinizing.
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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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A cigarette is a breathing space. It makes a parenthesis.
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The camera relieves us of the burden of memory. It surveys us like God, and it surveys for us. Yet no other god has been so cynical, for the camera records in order to forget.
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Oil painting did to appearances what capital did to social relations. It reduced everything to the equality of objects.
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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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Every authentic poem contributes to the labor of poetry… to bring together what life has separated or violence has torn apart…
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Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.
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To be naked is to be oneself.
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