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In Way’s of Seeing, John Berger argues that original art wields uniqueness unachievable in any other form. He states, “No other kind of relic or text from the past can offer such a direct testimony about the world which surrounded other people at other times. In this respect images are more precise and richer than literature” (108). Berger's outlook upon art, which was shaped by years of schooling, teaching, and personal experience as both an artist and a critic, clashes with his Marxist desires for an equal society. Berger believes that “When we are prevented from seeing [art], we are being deprived of the history which belongs to us,” (108) thus exhibiting his Marxist ideas that everyone should be able to experience art. Knowledge of history is not merely knowing events of the past, but it is an understanding of the outlook people had of their surrounding world. Berger feels that the opportunity for this understanding should not be a privilege held solely by the upper classes of society. Working toward an ideal Marxist society, reproductions allow everyone with access to historic art,