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 century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to them, disappear over the horizon.
More John Berger Quotes
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Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time has become Death triumphant over all.
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Never chain your dogs together with sausages. One must accustom one’s self to be bored.
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The essence of songs is neither vocal nor cerebral but organic.
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For me, drawing is a lot to do with taking out, with returning to the white of the paper.
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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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The zoo cannot but disappoint.
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Hair is associated with sexual power. With passion.
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Everything became exchangeable because everything became a commodity.
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Nakedness reveals itself. Nudity is placed on display. The nude is condemned to never being naked. Nudity is a form of dress.
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A cigarette is a breathing space. It makes a parenthesis.
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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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Picasso drawings are like that… the Rembrandts are like that. The artist who most often did that was Van Gogh.
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All publicity works upon anxiety.
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The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich.
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To be naked is to be oneself. To be nude is to be seen naked by others and yet not recognized for oneself. A naked body has to be seen as an object in order to become a nude.
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