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> [Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-berger/glamour-cannot-exist-without-personal-social-envy-being-a-common-and-2/)

[John Berger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-berger/)

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> [The happiness of being envied is glamour. Being envied is a solitary form of reassurance. It depends precisely upon not sharing your…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-berger/the-happiness-of-being-envied-is-glamour-being-envied-is-a-solitary/)

[John Berger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-berger/)

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> [Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion. The industrial society ... recognises nothing except the power…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-berger/glamour-cannot-exist-without-personal-social-envy-being-a-common-and-3/)

[John Berger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-berger/)

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## Other authors on Glamour

- [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b024/author-virginia-postrel-93901.jpg) Virginia Postrel 21 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/glamour/virginia-postrel/)
- [Violet Chachki 7 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/glamour/violet-chachki/)

## More by John Berger

> [When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-berger/when-we-read-a-story-we-inhabit-it-the-covers-of-the-book-are-like-a/)

[John Berger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-berger/)

> [The impulse to paint comes neither from observation nor from the soul (which is probably blind) but from an encounter: the encounter between painter…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-berger/the-impulse-to-paint-comes-neither-from-observation-nor-from-the-soul/)

[John Berger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-berger/)

> [Oil painting did to appearances what capital did to social relations. It reduced everything to the equality of objects. Everything became exchangeable because everything…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-berger/oil-painting-did-to-appearances-what-capital-did-to-social-relations/)

[John Berger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-berger/)

> [Landscapes can be deceptive. Sometimes a landscape seems to be less a setting for the life of its inhabitants than a curtain behind which…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-berger/landscapes-can-be-deceptive-sometimes-a-landscape-seems-to-be-less-a/)

[John Berger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-berger/)

> [We live in a dominant culture of ceaseless Departure and Progress that has so far lasted two or three centuries.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-berger/we-live-in-a-dominant-culture-of-ceaseless-departure-and-progress/)

[John Berger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-berger/)

> [My heart born naked was swaddled in lullabies. Later alone it wore poems for clothes. Like a shirt I carried on my back the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-berger/my-heart-born-naked-was-swaddled-in-lullabies-later-alone-it-wore/)

[John Berger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-berger/)

> [ There's the artist's intimacy and truthfulness to himself, but an equal intimacy to the Other \[the one drawn\]. Picasso drawings are like that... the… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-berger/there-s-the-artist-s-intimacy-and-truthfulness-to-himself-but-an/)

[John Berger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-berger/)

> [Traditional Chinese art looked at the Earth from a Confucian mountain top; Japanese art looked closely around screens; Italian Renaissance art surveyed conquered nature…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-berger/traditional-chinese-art-looked-at-the-earth-from-a-confucian-mountain/)

[John Berger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-berger/)

> [Never again shall a single story be told as though it were the only one.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-berger/never-again-shall-a-single-story-be-told-as-though-it-were-the-only/)

[John Berger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-berger/)

> [In drawing after drawing, pastel after pastel, painting after painting, the contours of Degas's dancing figures become, at a certain point, darkly insistent, tangled…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-berger/in-drawing-after-drawing-pastel-after-pastel-painting-after-painting/)

[John Berger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-berger/)

> [We never look at just one thing; we are always looking at the relation between things and ourselves.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-berger/we-never-look-at-just-one-thing-we-are-always-looking-at-the-relation/)

[John Berger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-berger/)

> [We can become anything. That is why injustice is impossible here. There may be the accident of birth, there is no accident of death.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-berger/we-can-become-anything-that-is-why-injustice-is-impossible-here-there/)

[John Berger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-berger/)

> [Capitalism survives by forcing the majority, whom it exploits, to define their own interests as narrowly as possible. This was once achieved by extensive…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-berger/capitalism-survives-by-forcing-the-majority-whom-it-exploits-to/)

[John Berger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-berger/)

> [The camera relieves us of the burden of memory.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-berger/the-camera-relieves-us-of-the-burden-of-memory/)

[John Berger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-berger/)

> [“Today we see the art of the past as nobody saw it before. We actually perceive it in a different way.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-berger/today-we-see-the-art-of-the-past-as-nobody-saw-it-before-we-actually/)

[John Berger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-berger/)

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