The publicity image steals her love of herself as she is, and offers it back to her for the price of the product.
JOHN BERGER[O]ften art has judged the judges, pleaded revenge to the innocent and shown to the future what the past suffered, so that it has never been forgotten.
More John Berger Quotes
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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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Never chain your dogs together with sausages. One must accustom one’s self to be bored.
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A drawing is an autobiographical record of one’s discovery of an event – either seen, remembered or imagined. A ‘finished’ work is an attempt to construct an event in itself.
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To live and die amongst foreigners may seem less absurd than to live persecuted or tortured by one’s fellow countrymen….
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Post-modernism has cut off the present from all futures. The daily media add to this by cutting off the past. Which means that critical opinion is often orphaned in the present.
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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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The human imagination… has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist practice or philosophy.
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Photography, because it stops the flow of life, is always flirting with death.
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The zoo cannot but disappoint.
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The unsung, impersonal world remains outside, on the other surface of a placenta. All songs, even when their content or rendering is strongly masculine, operate maternally.
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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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We only see what we look at. To look is an act of choice.
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Today the discredit of words is very great.
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Painting is something that you need to do, if not every day, then certainly most days. It is almost like being a pianist: if you stop, you lose something.
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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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