What is saved in the cinema when it achieves art is a spontaneous continuity with all mankind.
JOHN BERGEROurs is the century of enforced travel of disappearances.
More John Berger Quotes
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All photographs are there to remind us of what we forget. In this – as in other ways – they are the opposite of paintings.
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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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Words are so often used in the opposite sense, as a screen of diversion. It’s the struggle towards truthfulness which is the same whether one is writing a poem, a novel or an argument.
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Unlike any other visual image, a photograph is not a rendering, an imitation or an interpretation of its subject, but actually a trace of it.
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Post-modernism has cut off the present from all futures. The daily media add to this by cutting off the past. Which means that critical opinion is often orphaned in the present.
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Hair is associated with sexual power. With passion.
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We follow songs in order to be enclosed. We find ourselves inside a message.
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If everything that existed were continually being photographed, every photograph would become meaningless.
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Everything became exchangeable because everything became a commodity.
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The zoo cannot but disappoint.
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Buildings become furniture, courtyards become carpets and arrases, the streets are like galleries, the boulevards conservatories. It is a house, one or two centuries old, rich, bourgeois, distinguished. The only way of going out, or shutting the door behind you, is to leave the centre.
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Tracing an imaginary line between a cluster of stars gave them an image and an identity.
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It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open.
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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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Never again shall a single story be told as though it were the only one.
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