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.
JOHN BERGER(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.
More John Berger Quotes
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Ours is the century of enforced travel of disappearances.
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Compassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural.
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Hope is a contraband passed from hand to hand and story to story.
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What is to happen next will take place within the four walls of the story. And this is possible because the story’s voice makes everything its own.
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The impulse to paint comes neither from observation nor from the soul (which is probably blind) but from an encounter: the encounter between painter and model: even if the model is a mountain or a shelf of empty medicine bottles.
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We know that the earth is turning away from it. Yet the knowledge, the explanation, never quite fits the sight.
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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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It is not an art of the princes or the bourgeoisie. It is popular and vagrant. In the sky of the cinema people learn what they might have been and discover what belongs to them apart from their single lives.
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A cigarette is a breathing space. It makes a parenthesis.
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To be desired is perhaps the closest anybody in this life can reach to feeling immortal.
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As Nelson Mandela has pointed out, boycott is not a principle, it is a tactic depending upon circumstances.
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Tracing an imaginary line between a cluster of stars gave them an image and an identity.
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The zoo cannot but disappoint.
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In the modern world, in which thousands of people are dying every hour as a consequence of politics, no writing anywhere can begin to be credible unless it is informed by political awareness and principles.
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The spectator-buyer is meant to envy herself as she will become if she buys the product.
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