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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.

~John Berger

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I think I'm very permeable. I can very easily, without even choosing to do it, enter the life of another. Or, to put it in a more modest and accurate way, for that life to enter mine.

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The industrial society... recognises nothing except the power to acquire... No other kind of hope or satisfaction or pleasure can any longer be envisaged within the culture of capitalism.

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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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Drawing is a way of coming upon the connection between things, just like metaphor in poetry reconnects what has become separated.

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Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.

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Words are so often used in the opposite sense, as a screen of diversion. It's the struggle towards truthfulness which is the same whether one is writing a poem, a novel or an argument.

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Emigration, forced or chosen, across national frontiers or from village to metropolis, is the quintessential experience of our time.

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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. No painting or drawing, however naturalist, belongs to its subject in the way that a photograph does.

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Nothing in the nature around us is evil. This needs to be repeated since one of the human ways of talking oneself into inhuman acts is to cite the supposed cruelty of nature.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Artist

Born: November 5th, 1926

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