Drawing is a way of coming upon the connection between things, just like metaphor in poetry reconnects what has become separated.
JOHN BERGERThe zoo cannot but disappoint.
More John Berger Quotes
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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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My heart born naked was swaddled in lullabies.
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Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time has become Death triumphant over all.
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One can say of language that it is potentially the only human home, the only dwelling place that cannot be hostile to man.
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Common-sense is part of the home-made ideology of those who have been deprived of fundamental learning, of those who have been kept ignorant.
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You are observed with interest but you do not observe with interest – if you do, you will become less enviable. In this respect the envied are like bureaucrats; the more impersonal they are, the greater the illusion (for themselves and for others) of their power.
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It was more than that. It was the period in which we suffered more total losses than in all the rest of our life put together.
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All weddings are similar, but every marriage is different.
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The past is the one thing we are not prisoners of. We can do with the past exactly what we wish. What we can’t do is to change its consequences.
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Those who first invented and then named the constellations were storytellers.
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A cigarette is a breathing space. It makes a parenthesis.
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To live and die amongst foreigners may seem less absurd than to live persecuted or tortured by one’s fellow countrymen….
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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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A photograph is a meeting place where the interests of the photographer, the photographed, the viewer and those who are using the photograph are often contradictory.
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Everything became exchangeable because everything became a commodity.
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