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.
JOHN BERGERThe woman’s sexual passion needs to be minimized, so that the spectator may feel that he has the monopoly on such passion
More John Berger Quotes
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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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Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.
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A cigarette is a breathing space. It makes a parenthesis.
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My heart born naked was swaddled in lullabies.
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Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.
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What is to happen next will take place within the four walls of the story. And this is possible because the story’s voice makes everything its own.
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You can plan events, but if they go according to your plan they are not events.
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The essence of songs is neither vocal nor cerebral but organic.
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Ours is the century of enforced travel of disappearances.
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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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A peasant becomes fond of his pig and is glad to salt away its pork.
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Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.
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Nothing fortuitous happens in a child’s world. There are no accidents. Everything is connected with everything else and everything can be explained by everything else. . . . For a young child everything that happens is a necessity.
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These contradictions both hide and increase the natural ambiguity of the photographic image.
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Propaganda requires a permanent network of communication so that it can systematically stifle reflection with emotive or utopian slogans. Its pace is usually fast.
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