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.
JOHN BERGERWhen we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls.
More John Berger Quotes
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Picasso drawings are like that… the Rembrandts are like that. The artist who most often did that was Van Gogh.
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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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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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There’s the artist’s intimacy and truthfulness to himself, but an equal intimacy to the Other [the one drawn].
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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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The human imagination… has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist practice or philosophy.
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The heart of Paris is like nothing so much as the unending interior of a house.
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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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To be naked is to be oneself. To be nude is to be seen naked by others and yet not recognised for oneself.
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What is significant, and is so difficult for the urban stranger to understand, is that the two statements are connected by an and not by a but.
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Whenever the intensity of looking reaches a certain degree, one becomes aware of an equally intense energy coming towards one through the appearance of whatever it is one is scrutinizing.
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Those who first invented and then named the constellations were storytellers.
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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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Never again shall a single story be told as though it were the only one.
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The surveyor of woman in herself is male: the surveyed female. Thus she turns herself into an object – and most particularly an object of vision: a sight.
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