As Nelson Mandela has pointed out, boycott is not a principle, it is a tactic depending upon circumstances.
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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It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open.
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When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls.
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All weddings are similar, but every marriage is different.
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Protest and anger practically always derives from hope, and the shouting out against injustice is always in the hope of those injustices being somewhat corrected and a little more justice established.
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If everything that existed were continually being photographed, every photograph would become meaningless.
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These contradictions both hide and increase the natural ambiguity of the photographic image.
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The essence of songs is neither vocal nor cerebral but organic.
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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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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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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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The happiness of being envied is glamour. Being envied is a solitary form of reassurance. It depends precisely upon not sharing your experience with those who envy you.
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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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Painting is something that you need to do, if not every day, then certainly most days. It is almost like being a pianist: if you stop, you lose something.
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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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The zoo cannot but disappoint. The public purpose of zoos is to offer visitors the opportunity of looking at animals.
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