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John Berger
When we read...
When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls. What is to happen next...
The human imagination....
The human imagination. . . has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist practice or...
You can plan...
You can plan events, but if they go according to your plan they are not events.
I knew I'd...
I knew I'd been living in Berkeley too long when I saw a sign that said 'Free firewood and my first thought was Who...
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[O]ften art has...
[O]ften art has judged the judges, pleaded revenge to the innocent and shown to the future what the past suffered, so...
Nothing fortuitous happens...
Nothing fortuitous happens in a child's world. There are no accidents. Everything is connected with everything else...
All photographs are...
All photographs are there to remind us of what we forget. In this -- as in other ways -- they are the opposite of...
Autobiography begins with...
Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.
Source:...
A peasant becomes...
A peasant becomes fond of his pig and is glad to salt away its pork. What is significant, and is so difficult for the...
Publicity is the...
Publicity is the life of this culture -- in so far as without publicity capitalism could not survive -- and at the...
Ours is the...
Ours is the century of enforced travel. . . of disappearances. The century of people helplessly seeing others, who...
Glamor cannot exist...
Glamor cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion.
Unlike any other...
Unlike any other visual image, a photograph is not a rendering, an imitation or an interpretation of its subject, but...
I can't tell...
I can't tell you what art does and how it does it, but I know that often art has judged the judges, pleaded revenge to...
The spectator-buyer is...
The spectator-buyer is meant to envy herself as she will become if she buys the product. She is meant to imagine...