You 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.
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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Ever since the Greek tragedies, artists have, from time to time, asked themselves how they might influence ongoing political events.
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Everything in life, is a question of drawing a life, John, and you have to decide for yourself where to draw it.
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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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All creation is in the art of seeing.
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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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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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The unsung, impersonal world remains outside, on the other surface of a placenta. All songs, even when their content or rendering is strongly masculine, operate maternally.
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Advertising is not merely an assembly of competing messages; it is a language itself which is always being used to make the same general proposal
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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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Drawing is a way of coming upon the connection between things, just like metaphor in poetry reconnects what has become separated.
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What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time.
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The camera relieves us of the burden of memory. It surveys us like God, and it surveys for us. Yet no other god has been so cynical, for the camera records in order to forget.
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I can’t tell you what art does and how it does it, but I know that often art has judged the judges, pleaded revenge to the innocent and shown to the future what the past suffered, so that it has never been forgotten.
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This determines not only most relations between men and women but also the relation of women to themselves.
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