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.
JOHN BERGERAs Nelson Mandela has pointed out, boycott is not a principle, it is a tactic depending upon circumstances.
More John Berger Quotes
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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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Today the discredit of words is very great.
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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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Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity.
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This determines not only most relations between men and women but also the relation of women to themselves.
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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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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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When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls.
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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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Your lips, beloved, are like a honeycomb: honey and milk are under the tongue. And the smell of your clothes is like the smell of my home.
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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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These contradictions both hide and increase the natural ambiguity of the photographic image.
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The publicity image steals her love of herself as she is, and offers it back to her for the price of the product.
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What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time.
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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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