Between the experience of living a normal life at this moment on the planet and the public narratives being offered to give a sense to that life, the empty space, the gap, is enormous.
JOHN BERGER
When 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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Between the experience of living a normal life at this moment on the planet and the public narratives being offered to give a sense to that life, the empty space, the gap, is enormous.
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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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Capitalism survives by forcing the majority, whom it exploits, to define their own interests as narrowly as possible.
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Oil painting did to appearances what capital did to social relations. It reduced everything to the equality of objects.
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Compare the cinema with theatre. Both are dramatic arts. Theatre brings actors before a public and every night during the season they re-enact the same drama.
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Never chain your dogs together with sausages. One must accustom one’s self to be bored.
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(The sight of it as an object stimulates the use of it as an object.) Nakedness reveals itself. Nudity is placed on display. To be naked is to be without disguises.
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The strange power of art is sometimes it can show that what people have in common is more urgent than what differentiates them. It seems to me it’s something that theatre can do, but it’s rare; it’s very rare.
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The camera relieves us of the burden of memory.
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For the artist, drawing is discovery. And that is not just a slick phrase; it is quite literally true.
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It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open.
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Nakedness reveals itself. Nudity is placed on display. The nude is condemned to never being naked. Nudity is a form of dress.
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Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion.
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It is comparatively easy to achieve a certain unity in a picture by allowing one colour to dominate, or by muting all the colours.
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Never again shall a single story be told as though it were the only one.
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