When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls.
JOHN BERGERMen look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.
More John Berger Quotes
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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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You painted a naked woman because you enjoyed looking at her, put a mirror in her hand and you called the painting “Vanity,” thus morally condemning the woman whose nakedness you had depicted for you own pleasure.
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Picasso drawings are like that… the Rembrandts are like that. The artist who most often did that was Van Gogh.
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Advertising is not merely an assembly of competing messages; it is a language itself which is always being used to make the same general proposal
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Capitalism survives by forcing the majority, whom it exploits, to define their own interests as narrowly as possible.
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All publicity works upon anxiety.
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The true content of a photograph is invisible, for it derives from a play, not with form, but with time.
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Ever since the Greek tragedies, artists have, from time to time, asked themselves how they might influence ongoing political events.
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But toemigrate is always to dismantle the centre of the world, and so to move into a lost, disoriented one of fragments.
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The camera relieves us of the burden of memory.
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To be naked is to be oneself.
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A drawing is essentially a private work, related only to the artist’s own needs; a ‘finished’ statue or canvas is essentially a public, presented work – related far more directly to the demands of communication.
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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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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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All creation is in the art of seeing.
JOHN BERGER