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Quotes from Ways of Seeing — John Berger

1926–2017 England

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The uniqueness of every painting was once part of the uniqueness of the place where it resided.

Ways of Seeing (1972)

Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion. The industrial society which has moved towards democracy and then stopped half way is the ideal society for generating such an emotion. The pursuit of individual happiness has been acknowledged as a universal right. Yet the existing social conditions make the individual feel powerless.

Ways of Seeing (1972)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: John Berger (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.