All creation is in the art of seeing.
JOHN BERGERThis determines not only most relations between men and women but also the relation of women to themselves.
More John Berger Quotes
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Hair is associated with sexual power. With passion.
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We never look at just one thing; we are always looking at the relation between things and ourselves.
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A peasant becomes fond of his pig and is glad to salt away its pork.
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Every city has a sex and an age which have nothing to do with demography. Rome is feminine. So is Odessa. London is a teenager, an urchin, and, in this, hasn’t changed since the time of Dickens. Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.
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For those who are behind the curtain, landmarks are no longer only geographic but also biographical and personal
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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.
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We only see what we look at. To look is an act of choice.
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The camera relieves us of the burden of memory.
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Oil painting did to appearances what capital did to social relations. It reduced everything to the equality of objects.
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Later alone it wore poems for clothes. Like a shirt I carried on my back the poetry I had read. So I lived for half a century until wordlessly we met. From my shirt on the back of the chair I learn tonight how many years of learning by heart I waited for you.
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These contradictions both hide and increase the natural ambiguity of the photographic image.
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When he painted a road, the roadmakers were there in his imagination, when he painted the turned earth of a ploughed field, the gesture of the blade turning the earth was included in his own act.
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This was once achieved by extensive deprivation. Today in the developed countries it is being achieved by imposing a false standard of what is and what is not desirable.
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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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Propaganda requires a permanent network of communication so that it can systematically stifle reflection with emotive or utopian slogans. Its pace is usually fast.
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