We follow songs in order to be enclosed. We find ourselves inside a message.
JOHN BERGERThe 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.
More John Berger Quotes
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That we find a crystal or a poppy beautiful means that we are less alone, that we are more deeply inserted into existence than the course of a single life would lead us to believe.
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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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The true content of a photograph is invisible, for it derives from a play, not with form, but with time.
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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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If everything that existed were continually being photographed, every photograph would become meaningless.
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A drawing is essentially a private work, related only to the artist’s own needs; a ‘finished’ statue or canvas is essentially a public, presented work – related far more directly to the demands of communication.
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Never chain your dogs together with sausages. One must accustom one’s self to be bored.
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You cant draw it for others. You can try, of course, but it doesn’t work. People obeying rules laid down my somebody else is not the same thing as respecting life. And if you want to respect life, you have to draw a line.
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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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The woman’s sexual passion needs to be minimized, so that the spectator may feel that he has the monopoly on such passion
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All weddings are similar, but every marriage is different.
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Protest and anger practically always derives from hope, and the shouting out against injustice is always in the hope of those injustices being somewhat corrected and a little more justice established.
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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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In the average European oil painting of the nude the principal protagonist is never painted. He is the spectator in front of the picture and he is presumed to be a man.
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The essence of songs is neither vocal nor cerebral but organic.
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