Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion.
JOHN BERGEREmigration, forced or chosen, across national frontiers or from village to metropolis, is the quintessential experience of our time.
More John Berger Quotes
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My heart born naked was swaddled in lullabies.
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The century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to them, disappear over the horizon.
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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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Tracing an imaginary line between a cluster of stars gave them an image and an identity.
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What any true painting touches is an absence – an absence of which without the painting, we might be unaware. And that would be our loss.
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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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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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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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Japanese art looked closely around screens; Italian Renaissance art surveyed conquered nature through the window or door-frame of a palace.
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What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time.
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It is not usually possible in a poem or a story to make the relationship between particular and universal fully explicit. Those who try to do so end up writing parables.
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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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I use charcoal a lot. Partly because it has such a fantastic range but also because it is very easy to erase.
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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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There’s the artist’s intimacy and truthfulness to himself, but an equal intimacy to the Other [the one drawn].
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