Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion.
JOHN BERGERTo remain innocent may also be. to remain ignorant.
More John Berger Quotes
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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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It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open.
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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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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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By contrast, a woman’s presence… defines what can and cannot be done to her.
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You cant draw it for others. You can try, of course, but it doesn’t work. People obeying rules laid down my somebody else is not the same thing as respecting life. And if you want to respect life, you have to draw a line.
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The envied are like bureaucrats; the more impersonal they are, the greater the illusion (for themselves and for others) of their power.
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Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak.
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These contradictions both hide and increase the natural ambiguity of the photographic image.
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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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Compare the cinema with theatre. Both are dramatic arts. Theatre brings actors before a public and every night during the season they re-enact the same drama.
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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 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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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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(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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