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.
JOHN BERGER
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.
More John Berger Quotes
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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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Photographs bear witness to a human choice being exercised in a given situation.
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A tactic which allows people, as distinct from their elected but often craven governments, to apply a certain pressure on those wielding power in what they, the boycotters, consider to be an unjust or immoral way.
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She is meant to imagine herself transformed by the product into an object of envy for others, an envy which will then justify her loving herself.
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Unlike any other visual image, a photograph is not a rendering, an imitation or an interpretation of its subject, but actually a trace of it.
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What is saved in the cinema when it achieves art is a spontaneous continuity with all mankind.
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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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It can happen that a book, unlike its authors, grows younger as the years pass.
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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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Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.
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Without ethics man has no future. This is to say mankind without them cannot be itself.
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All weddings are similar, but every marriage is different.
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