When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls.
JOHN BERGERFor me, drawing is a lot to do with taking out, with returning to the white of the paper.
More John Berger Quotes
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What is saved in the cinema when it achieves art is a spontaneous continuity with all mankind.
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When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls.
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The publicity image steals her love of herself as she is, and offers it back to her for the price of the product.
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Today the discredit of words is very great.
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The zoo cannot but disappoint. The public purpose of zoos is to offer visitors the opportunity of looking at animals.
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The power of the glamorous resides in their supposed happiness: the power of the bureaucrat in his supposed authority.
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The opposite of love is not to hate but to separate. If love and hate have something in common it is because, in both cases, their energy is that of bringing and holding together
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Every authentic poem contributes to the labor of poetry… to bring together what life has separated or violence has torn apart…
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Everything in life, is a question of drawing a life, John, and you have to decide for yourself where to draw it.
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My heart born naked was swaddled in lullabies.
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A drawing is an autobiographical record of one’s discovery of an event – either seen, remembered or imagined. A ‘finished’ work is an attempt to construct an event in itself.
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Hair is associated with sexual power. With passion.
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Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion.
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It is seeing which establishes our place in the surrounding world; we explain that world with words, but words can never undo the fact that we are surrounded by it
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Deep in the nature of theatre is a sense of ritual. The cinema, by contrast, transports its audience individually, singly, out of the theatre towards the unknown.
JOHN BERGER