The camera relieves us of the burden of memory.
JOHN BERGER
It 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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The camera relieves us of the burden of memory.
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No painting or drawing, however naturalist, belongs to its subject in the way that a photograph does.
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We follow songs in order to be enclosed. We find ourselves inside a message.
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All weddings are similar, but every marriage is different.
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Propaganda requires a permanent network of communication so that it can systematically stifle reflection with emotive or utopian slogans. Its pace is usually fast.
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The animal has secrets which, unlike the secrets of caves, mountains, seas are specifically addressed to man.
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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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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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It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open.
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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.
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All publicity works upon anxiety.
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Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.
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A photograph is a meeting place where the interests of the photographer, the photographed, the viewer and those who are using the photograph are often contradictory.
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Every painted image of something is also about the absence of the real thing. All painting is about the presence of absence.
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