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.
JOHN BERGERThe true content of a photograph is invisible, for it derives from a play, not with form, but with time.
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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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All weddings are similar, but every marriage is different.
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But toemigrate is always to dismantle the centre of the world, and so to move into a lost, disoriented one of fragments.
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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 creation is in the art of seeing.
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Those who first invented and then named the constellations were storytellers.
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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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We follow songs in order to be enclosed. We find ourselves inside a message.
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Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak.
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Everything became exchangeable because everything became a commodity.
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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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Protest and anger practically always derives from hope, and the shouting out against injustice is always in the hope of those injustices being somewhat corrected and a little more justice established.
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If everything that existed were continually being photographed, every photograph would become meaningless.
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Painting is something that you need to do, if not every day, then certainly most days. It is almost like being a pianist: if you stop, you lose something.
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I wanted to write about looking at the world, so it’s more about helping people, or persuading people, to see what is around us; both the marvellous and the terrible.
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