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 BERGERYou cant draw it for others. You can try, of course, but it doesn’t work. People obeying rules laid down my somebody else is not the same thing as respecting life. And if you want to respect life, you have to draw a line.
More John Berger Quotes
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If everything that existed were continually being photographed, every photograph would become meaningless.
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You can plan events, but if they go according to your plan they are not events.
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The essence of songs is neither vocal nor cerebral but organic.
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For those who are behind the curtain, landmarks are no longer only geographic but also biographical and personal
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Yet the first symbols were animals. What distinguished men from animals was born of their relationship with them.
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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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It is not usually possible in a poem or a story to make the relationship between particular and universal fully explicit. Those who try to do so end up writing parables.
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The century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to them, disappear over the horizon.
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History always constitutes the relation between a present and its past. Consequently fear of the present leads to mystification of the past
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One of the fundamental reasons why so many doctors become cynical and disillusioned is precisely because, when the abstract idealism has worn thin, they are uncertain about the value of the actual lives of the patients they are treating.
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Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.
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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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This was once achieved by extensive deprivation. Today in the developed countries it is being achieved by imposing a false standard of what is and what is not desirable.
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The impulse to paint comes neither from observation nor from the soul (which is probably blind) but from an encounter: the encounter between painter and model: even if the model is a mountain or a shelf of empty medicine bottles.
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This is not because they are callous or personally inhuman: it is because they live in and accept a society which is incapable of knowing what a human life is worth.
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