One can say of language that it is potentially the only human home, the only dwelling place that cannot be hostile to man.
JOHN BERGERWithout ethics man has no future. This is to say mankind without them cannot be itself.
More John Berger Quotes
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To be desired is perhaps the closest anybody in this life can reach to feeling immortal.
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The camera relieves us of the burden of memory. It surveys us like God, and it surveys for us. Yet no other god has been so cynical, for the camera records in order to forget.
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In the modern world, in which thousands of people are dying every hour as a consequence of politics, no writing anywhere can begin to be credible unless it is informed by political awareness and principles.
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Between the experience of living a normal life at this moment on the planet and the public narratives being offered to give a sense to that life, the empty space, the gap, is enormous.
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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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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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Common-sense is part of the home-made ideology of those who have been deprived of fundamental learning, of those who have been kept ignorant.
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These contradictions both hide and increase the natural ambiguity of the photographic image.
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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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We know that the earth is turning away from it. Yet the knowledge, the explanation, never quite fits the sight.
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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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Advertising is not merely an assembly of competing messages; it is a language itself which is always being used to make the same general proposal
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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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Writers who have neither product utopian trash.
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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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