What is saved in the cinema when it achieves art is a spontaneous continuity with all mankind.
JOHN BERGERIt is comparatively easy to achieve a certain unity in a picture by allowing one colour to dominate, or by muting all the colours.
More John Berger Quotes
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You are observed with interest but you do not observe with interest – if you do, you will become less enviable. In this respect the envied are like bureaucrats; the more impersonal they are, the greater the illusion (for themselves and for others) of their power.
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The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.
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Fanaticism comes from any form of chosen blindness accompanying the pursuit of a single dogma.
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To be desired is perhaps the closest anybody in this life can reach to feeling immortal.
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It is not an art of the princes or the bourgeoisie. It is popular and vagrant. In the sky of the cinema people learn what they might have been and discover what belongs to them apart from their single lives.
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Every authentic poem contributes to the labour of poetry… to bring together what life has separated or violence has torn apart.
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For the Cro-Magnons, space is a metaphysical arena of continually intermittent appearances and disappearances.
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Japanese art looked closely around screens; Italian Renaissance art surveyed conquered nature through the window or door-frame of a palace.
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Advertising is not merely an assembly of competing messages; it is a language itself which is always being used to make the same general proposal
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Everything became exchangeable because everything became a commodity.
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We know that the earth is turning away from it. Yet the knowledge, the explanation, never quite fits the sight.
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All publicity works upon anxiety.
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The spectator-buyer is meant to envy herself as she will become if she buys the product.
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Capitalism survives by forcing the majority, whom it exploits, to define their own interests as narrowly as possible.
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In the modern world, in which thousands of people are dying every hour as a consequence of politics, no writing anywhere can begin to be credible unless it is informed by political awareness and principles.
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