Writers who have neither product utopian trash.
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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Photography, because it stops the flow of life, is always flirting with death.
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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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The spectator-buyer is meant to envy herself as she will become if she buys the product.
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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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Compare the cinema with theatre. Both are dramatic arts. Theatre brings actors before a public and every night during the season they re-enact the same drama.
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Deep in the nature of theatre is a sense of ritual. The cinema, by contrast, transports its audience individually, singly, out of the theatre towards the unknown.
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You are observed with interest but you do not observe with interest – if you do, you will become less enviable. In this respect 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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The zoo cannot but disappoint.
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Yet the first symbols were animals. What distinguished men from animals was born of their relationship with them.
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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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Buildings become furniture, courtyards become carpets and arrases, the streets are like galleries, the boulevards conservatories. It is a house, one or two centuries old, rich, bourgeois, distinguished. The only way of going out, or shutting the door behind you, is to leave the centre.
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Drawing is a way of coming upon the connection between things, just like metaphor in poetry reconnects what has become separated.
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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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Hope is a contraband passed from hand to hand and story to story.
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The animal has secrets which, unlike the secrets of caves, mountains, seas are specifically addressed to man.
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